Admissions & selectivity
University of the Incarnate Word Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at University of the Incarnate Word?
University of the Incarnate Word’s reported acceptance rate is 98.1%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 98.1%
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.
Source: University of the Incarnate Word Common Data Set 2024-25, C1 · first-time, first-year students.
How to interpret the acceptance rate
University of the Incarnate Word admitted 98.1% of applicants, a rate above the median of 71.2% for comparable institutions (same type and size). This describes the outcome for the reported applicant pool and indicates that admission was common in that cycle.
In its 2024-25 Common Data Set, the university reported 11,305 first-year applicants and 11,096 admitted applicants.
What SAT and ACT scores do enrolled University of the Incarnate Word students report?
In its 2024-25 Common Data Set, University of the Incarnate Word reported ACT scores from 18 to 24 for the middle half of enrolled first-year students who submitted scores. That range describes score submitters in the entering class, not a minimum score for admission.
The university reported a reported average high-school GPA of 3.54 among first-year students who reported GPA; it is an average rather than a cutoff. Applicants should use the 18 to 24 ACT range as a reference when deciding whether an ACT score belongs in their application, alongside their coursework and grades.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at University of the Incarnate Word. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- 25th percentile
- 18
- Median
- 20
- 75th percentile
- 24
CDS 2024-25 · enrolled first-year score submitters. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Source: University of the Incarnate Word Common Data Set 2024-25, C9 · Enrolled first-time, first-year score submitters.
Who enrolls at University of the Incarnate Word?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 44.6%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 26.6%
- First-year retention
- 71.3%
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 the Incarnate Word serves a campus where Pell Grant recipients account for 44.6% of undergraduates and the estimated share of entrants outside the first-time, full-time group is 26.6%. Undergraduate enrollment is 4,440, a composition that includes many aid recipients and people continuing college after starting elsewhere.
In its 2024-25 Common Data Set, the university reported 11,305 first-year applicants and 11,096 admitted applicants. It also reported 821 transfer applicants, 771 admitted, and 386 enrolled.
The outcome picture is weaker on both returning after the first year and finishing within six years. University of the Incarnate Word has a six-year graduation rate of 51.0% for its first-time full-time cohort, below the peer median of 68.8% for comparable institutions.
Its first-year retention rate is 71.3%, which also trails the peer median of 83.4%. Pell recipients in that cohort have a 51.9% six-year completion rate, above the overall rate by 0.9 percentage points.
Enrolled students can expect persistence measures that sit below the comparable-institution benchmarks for both returning and graduating.
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.
Admission rates describe past applicants, not an individual’s chance of admission; confirm requirements and deadlines with the institution.
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