UW-Oshkosh acceptance rate and your odds of getting in

UW-Oshkosh, a public university in Wisconsin, reports a 87% acceptance rate and sits in the accessible band. In practice that means it admits most qualified applicants, so a strong application is judged against an applicant pool that is already self-selected.

Use this page to see what UW-Oshkosh weighs, where it ranks among Wisconsin schools, and how a profile like yours is likely to land. Admitted students post a 75th-percentile SAT around 1180, a useful checkpoint for where your scores sit, though it is a reference range and not a cutoff.

What are my chances at UW-Oshkosh 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 UW-Oshkosh's admitted range, applying Regular Decision without a hook. A 3.4 GPA with a 1180 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/uw-oshkosh.

There is no formula that guarantees a spot at UW-Oshkosh, but the applicants who get in tend to do the same four things. Here is what the numbers say each one looks like.

UW-Oshkosh admitted 7,872 of the 9,082 students who applied for fall 2023, which works out to 86.7%. 1,751 enrolled. Only about 22% 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. UW-Oshkosh enrolls about 6,877 undergraduates in total, 56% of them women, with a student-to-faculty ratio of 22 to 1.

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

On the ACT the middle 50% runs from 18 to 25. UW-Oshkosh 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.

The factors that carry the most weight at UW-Oshkosh are 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 UW-Oshkosh'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 UW-Oshkosh (tuition, fees, housing, food, books) is about $19,652 a year. Tuition and fees are $8,532 for WI residents and $16,446 for out-of-state students, a $7,914 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 $14,305 a year, and it ranges from $9,236 for families earning under $30,000 to $19,223 for families earning over $110,000. 16% 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 UW-Oshkosh students ten years after entry are $55,548 ($50,140 at the six-year mark). 46% of first-time, full-time students graduate within six years, and 69% return for a second year. Among graduates who borrowed, median federal debt at graduation is $21,500; 24% 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 23 Wisconsin schools we track, UW-Oshkosh ranks #17 most selective by acceptance rate. Schools like University of Wisconsin (45%) and Mount Mary University (62%) sit nearby, which makes Wisconsin 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.

Applicants targeting UW-Oshkosh often weigh Boise State University, George Mason University, and North Carolina Central University, which sit at a similar level. 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.