Admissions & selectivity
University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras?
University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras’s reported acceptance rate is 54.6%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 54.6%
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-Rio Piedras admits 54.6% of applicants, well below the median of 85.9% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
What SAT and ACT scores do University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras students report?
SAT and ACT ranges are not available for University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras 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-Rio Piedras?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 66.5%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 10.0%
- First-year retention
- 77.2%
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-Rio Piedras enrolls 8,572 undergraduates, and the student body is shaped by two entry points. Most students begin as first-time freshmen, while an estimated 10.0% arrive after starting coursework elsewhere.
66.5% of undergraduates receive Pell Grants, a share that places the university in the 98th percentile for access among nonprofit four-year institutions.
Of full-time bachelor's-seeking entrants, 77.2% return for a second year. The six-year graduation rate is 50.3%.
Both figures run ahead of the peer medians: 73.7% for retention and 49.1% for completion at comparable institutions. Pell recipients in the same cohort complete at 48.1%, 2.2 percentage points below the overall rate.
Enrolled students can expect persistence and completion that exceed the peer medians, with Pell recipients finishing at a rate close to the cohort as a whole.
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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