Texas A&M Kingsville acceptance rate and your odds of getting in

Texas A&M Kingsville is a public university in Texas that admits most qualified applicants (around 91%), which puts it in the accessible range. A rate like this means it admits most qualified applicants; the bar is less about clearing a single cutoff and more about how your full profile compares to admitted students.

Use this page to see what Texas A&M Kingsville weighs, where it ranks among Texas schools, and how a profile like yours is likely to land. Admitted students post a 75th-percentile SAT around 1120, a useful checkpoint for where your scores sit, though it is a reference range and not a cutoff.

What are my chances at Texas A&M Kingsville with a 3.1 GPA and a 1050 SAT?

About 98% (Safety), by CollegeCalcAI's deterministic model, for an applicant with a 3.1 unweighted GPA and a 1050 SAT, the middle of Texas A&M Kingsville's admitted range, applying Regular Decision without a hook. A 3.4 GPA with a 1110 SAT comes out near 98%. Courses, activities, essays and the application round move the number; the free calculator includes them.

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Getting into Texas A&M Kingsville comes down to four decisions, each one visible in the data on this page.

7,915 students applied to Texas A&M Kingsville for fall 2023; 7,305 were admitted (92.3%). 1,203 enrolled. Only about 16% of admitted students enrolled, so the school admits several students for every seat it expects to fill, which is why its acceptance rate reads higher than its selectivity feels. Texas A&M Kingsville enrolls about 4,748 undergraduates in total, 49% of them women, with a student-to-faculty ratio of 18 to 1.

Source: U.S. Department of Education, IPEDS 2023 admissions and enrollment.

The middle 50% of admitted students at Texas A&M Kingsville scored between 990 and 1110 on the SAT (average 1050). A score above 1110 puts you in the top quarter of admits and turns the test into an asset; a score below 990 puts you in the bottom quarter, where the rest of the application has to carry more weight. Texas A&M Kingsville is test-optional: scores are considered if you submit them but not required. Send a score at or above the middle of the admitted range; otherwise apply without one and let your transcript lead.

Source: College Scorecard (U.S. Department of Education), release 2026-06-10.

Texas A&M Kingsville signals that it values rigor of secondary school record and academic GPA above the rest of the file. Solid grades in a challenging schedule do most of the work here, with the rest of the application providing context. These ratings come from Texas A&M Kingsville's reported Common Data Set, so the full chart below reflects what the school itself says it values, not a generic guess.

Texas A&M Kingsville's published cost of attendance, before any aid, is roughly $24,060 per year. Tuition and fees are $9,892 for TX residents and $25,746 for out-of-state students, a $15,854 gap that makes residency the single biggest lever on cost. What families actually pay is different: the average net price after grants and scholarships is $12,090 a year, and it ranges from $10,207 for families earning under $30,000 to $19,553 for families earning over $110,000. 53% of undergraduates receive a federal Pell Grant.

Source: College Scorecard (U.S. Department of Education), release 2026-06-10. Net price is what students receiving aid paid after grants, by family income.

Ten years after enrolling, the median Texas A&M Kingsville student who received federal aid earns $51,450 a year, up from $44,882 at six years. 42% of first-time, full-time students graduate within six years, and 65% return for a second year. Among graduates who borrowed, median federal debt at graduation is $22,934; 38% of undergraduates take federal loans.

Source: College Scorecard (U.S. Department of Education), release 2026-06-10. Earnings cover students who received federal aid.

Among the 53 Texas schools we track, Texas A&M Kingsville ranks #39 most selective by acceptance rate. Schools like Rice University (8%) and Trinity University (TX) (26%) sit nearby, which makes Texas a useful frame for calibrating a balanced list. As a public university, residency matters: in-state applicants generally see meaningfully better odds than the headline rate suggests.

If Texas A&M Kingsville is on your list, schools with a similar admit profile are worth a look: Cal State Fullerton, Cleveland State University, and Eastern Washington University. Running the same profile against each one in the free calculator is the fastest way to see where you are a reach, a match, or a likely.

Acceptance rate, application counts, admitted test ranges, cost, and outcomes reflect publicly reported federal data (U.S. Department of Education: IPEDS 2023 and the College Scorecard) and each school's Common Data Set; figures are rounded and lag the current cycle by one to two years, so confirm deadlines and policies on the school's own site. The typical-admit GPA and SAT are CollegeCalcAI's modeled estimates. Estimates from CollegeCalcAI are a planning tool computed by a fixed, transparent model, not a guarantee of any admission decision.