Admissions & selectivity
University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez?
University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez’s reported acceptance rate is 56.5%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 56.5%
Source: College Scorecard · Fall 2024 admissions. Acceptance rates can change from year to year; this figure does not predict the current or next admission cycle.
How to interpret the acceptance rate
The University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez admits 56.5% of applicants, a rate well below the median of 85.9% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
What SAT and ACT scores do University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez students report?
SAT and ACT ranges are not available for University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez in the data shown here. Missing scores do not establish whether tests are required, optional or excluded from review.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 64.9%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 5.4%
- First-year retention
- 87.0%
Retention source: College Scorecard; full-time first-year retention.
About these student measures
The entering-student group includes part-time entrants as well as other attendance patterns.
University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez enrolls 9,539 undergraduates, with 64.9% receiving Pell Grants. An estimated 5.4% enter as transfers or part-time students, so the campus is overwhelmingly built around students who start as first-time freshmen.
The high Pell share and the modest transfer presence describe a student body that draws heavily from first-time students who rely on federal grant aid. The composition points to a single dominant entry route rather than a mix of paths.
Full-time bachelor's-seeking entrants return at a rate of 87.0%, and 49.1% finish within six years. The retention rate sits above its peer median, while the graduation rate matches its peer median.
The retention rate exceeds the peer median of 73.7%, and the graduation rate matches the peer median of 49.1%. Pell recipients in the same entering cohort complete at 60.3%, which is 11.2 percentage points above the overall rate.
Enrolled students can expect strong persistence, and Pell students finish at a rate that exceeds the broader cohort's.
Data & methodology
Sources and reporting periods: methodology.
Analysis and methodology by Daniel Rogers, founder of College Azimuth.
Explanatory text is AI-assisted drafting checked against those figures; it is not an additional data source.
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