UT Permian Basin acceptance rate and your odds of getting in

With an acceptance rate near 95%, UT Permian Basin is an accessible public university in Texas. 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 UT Permian Basin 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 UT Permian Basin with a 3.1 GPA and a 1020 SAT?

About 98% (Safety), by CollegeCalcAI's deterministic model, for an applicant with a 3.1 unweighted GPA and a 1020 SAT, the middle of UT Permian Basin's admitted range, applying Regular Decision without a hook. A 3.4 GPA with a 1130 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/ut-permian-basin.

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

For the fall 2023 entering class, UT Permian Basin received 1,718 applications and admitted 1,451, an acceptance rate of 84.5%. 674 enrolled. Roughly 46% of admitted students enrolled, a typical yield for a school in this range. UT Permian Basin enrolls about 3,911 undergraduates in total, 61% of them women, with a student-to-faculty ratio of 19 to 1.

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

Admitted students at UT Permian Basin post SAT scores of 910 to 1130 in the middle 50%, with an average of 1033. On the ACT the middle 50% runs from 17 to 23. A score above 1130 puts you in the top quarter of admits and turns the test into an asset; a score below 910 puts you in the bottom quarter, where the rest of the application has to carry more weight. UT Permian Basin 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, UT Permian Basin leans most on rigor of secondary school record and academic GPA. Solid grades in a challenging schedule do most of the work here, with the rest of the application providing context. These ratings come from UT Permian Basin's reported Common Data Set, so the full chart below reflects what the school itself says it values, not a generic guess.

The full sticker price at UT Permian Basin (tuition, fees, housing, food, books) is about $23,886 a year. Tuition and fees are $9,236 for TX residents and $21,504 for out-of-state students, a $12,268 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 $12,723 a year, and it ranges from $11,930 for families earning under $30,000 to $17,810 for families earning over $110,000. 39% 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.

Median earnings for UT Permian Basin students ten years after entry are $56,073 ($50,020 at the six-year mark). 40% of first-time, full-time students graduate within six years, and 61% return for a second year. Among graduates who borrowed, median federal debt at graduation is $17,750; 29% 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, UT Permian Basin ranks #47 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.

Build around UT Permian Basin with peers at a comparable selectivity, such as Fresno State University, North Dakota State University, and University of New Mexico. 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.