UC Colorado Springs acceptance rate and your odds of getting in

With an acceptance rate near 97%, UC Colorado Springs is an accessible public university in Colorado. Because it admits most qualified applicants, admission turns on the strength of your whole profile rather than any one number.

Use this page to see what UC Colorado Springs weighs, where it ranks among Colorado 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 UC Colorado Springs with a 3.1 GPA and a 1120 SAT?

About 98% (Safety), by CollegeCalcAI's deterministic model, for an applicant with a 3.1 unweighted GPA and a 1120 SAT, the middle of UC Colorado Springs's admitted range, applying Regular Decision without a hook. A 3.4 GPA with a 1220 SAT comes out near 98%. Courses, activities, essays and the application round move the number; the free calculator includes them.

Estimates, not guarantees. Get yours with your real courses and activities. Assistants and developers can fetch this table from the free API: /api/v1/colleges/uc-colorado-springs.

Here is how to get into UC Colorado Springs, built from what its admitted class actually looks like and what the school says it weighs.

For the fall 2023 entering class, UC Colorado Springs received 13,103 applications and admitted 12,653, an acceptance rate of 96.6%. 1,747 enrolled. Only about 14% 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. UC Colorado Springs enrolls about 8,697 undergraduates in total, 53% of them women, with a student-to-faculty ratio of 15 to 1.

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

The middle 50% of admitted students at UC Colorado Springs scored between 1010 and 1220 on the SAT (average 1133). On the ACT the middle 50% runs from 20 to 26. A score above 1220 puts you in the top quarter of admits and turns the test into an asset; a score below 1010 puts you in the bottom quarter, where the rest of the application has to carry more weight. UC Colorado Springs 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.

In its review, UC Colorado Springs leans most on rigor of secondary school record, academic GPA, and standardized test scores. Solid grades in a challenging schedule do most of the work here, with the rest of the application providing context. These ratings come from UC Colorado Springs's reported Common Data Set, so the full chart below reflects what the school itself says it values, not a generic guess.

UC Colorado Springs's published cost of attendance, before any aid, is roughly $24,595 per year. Tuition and fees are $10,149 for CO residents and $24,336 for out-of-state students, a $14,187 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 $15,788 a year, and it ranges from $12,065 for families earning under $30,000 to $22,142 for families earning over $110,000. 27% 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 UC Colorado Springs student who received federal aid earns $54,659 a year, up from $45,766 at six years. 47% of first-time, full-time students graduate within six years, and 68% return for a second year. Among graduates who borrowed, median federal debt at graduation is $20,000; 34% 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 16 Colorado schools we track, UC Colorado Springs ranks #13 most selective by acceptance rate. Schools like U.S. Air Force Academy (14%) and Colorado College (18%) sit nearby, which makes Colorado 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.

Build around UC Colorado Springs with peers at a comparable selectivity, such as Idaho State University, Texas Southern University, and University of Maine. 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.