UNC Greensboro acceptance rate and your odds of getting in

With an acceptance rate near 89%, UNC Greensboro is an accessible public university in North Carolina. 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 UNC Greensboro weighs, where it ranks among North Carolina schools, and how a profile like yours is likely to land. Admitted students post a 75th-percentile SAT around 1130, a useful checkpoint for where your scores sit, though it is a reference range and not a cutoff.

What are my chances at UNC Greensboro with a 3.1 GPA and a 1250 SAT?

About 98% (Safety), by CollegeCalcAI's deterministic model, for an applicant with a 3.1 unweighted GPA and a 1250 SAT, the middle of UNC Greensboro's admitted range, applying Regular Decision without a hook. A 3.4 GPA with a 1360 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/unc-greensboro.

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

For the fall 2023 entering class, UNC Greensboro received 12,379 applications and admitted 11,120, an acceptance rate of 89.8%. 2,613 enrolled. Only about 23% 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. UNC Greensboro enrolls about 14,062 undergraduates in total, 66% 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 UNC Greensboro scored between 1150 and 1355 on the SAT (average 1193). On the ACT the middle 50% runs from 22 to 27. A score above 1355 puts you in the top quarter of admits and turns the test into an asset; a score below 1150 puts you in the bottom quarter, where the rest of the application has to carry more weight. UNC Greensboro 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, UNC Greensboro 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 UNC Greensboro's reported Common Data Set, so the full chart below reflects what the school itself says it values, not a generic guess.

UNC Greensboro's published cost of attendance, before any aid, is roughly $21,373 per year. Tuition and fees are $7,661 for NC residents and $24,012 for out-of-state students, a $16,351 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 $10,965 a year, and it ranges from $7,305 for families earning under $30,000 to $19,580 for families earning over $110,000. 50% 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 UNC Greensboro student who received federal aid earns $48,160 a year, up from $39,869 at six years. 56% of first-time, full-time students graduate within six years, and 79% return for a second year. Among graduates who borrowed, median federal debt at graduation is $22,858; 46% 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 38 North Carolina schools we track, UNC Greensboro ranks #33 most selective by acceptance rate. Schools like Duke University (6%) and Davidson College (13%) sit nearby, which makes North Carolina 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 UNC Greensboro with peers at a comparable selectivity, such as Colorado State University, East Carolina University, and Iowa State 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.

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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.