UT Austin acceptance rate: the latest complete cohort

The latest supported rates, with their missing fields

The 2025–26 CDS describes Fall 2025 entry. Its C1 table supplies the first-year counts; D2 supplies the separate external-transfer cohort. The PDF page numbers are 14 and 24. Use the admitted column as the numerator, not the number who ultimately enrolled.

For Fall 2026, UT reports 98,841 freshman applications and an entering first-time-in-college class of 9,487. The announcement does not publish an offers count. A quotient made from those two numbers would describe enrollment relative to applications, not acceptance.

The total retains every reported C1 sex category, including the source’s Unknown category: 32 applicants and one admit (C1, PDF page13). That is a different classification from residency, whose Unknown column reports zero. Do not drop a small category or substitute one table’s unknown count for another.

Why the entering class produces a different percentage

The first-year report records 9,900 enrolled students. Dividing that count by 90,690 applicants gives about 10.92%. That is the share of applicants who enrolled, not the acceptance rate: some admitted applicants chose another destination.

Dividing the same 9,900 enrollees by 20,154 admitted applicants gives a yield of about 49.12%. Yield answers how many admitted students enrolled. Label the numerator and denominator before comparing a percentage from another college guide.

UT’s September 2025 enrollment announcement independently reports 9,900 first-time-in-college students and an updated 90,690 freshman applications. It notes that the application count was revised from an earlier 90,562. A December application headline and the later census should not be mixed into one calculation. Enrollment announcement

Compared with the revised 90,690 Fall 2025 application count, 98,841 in Fall 2026 is an 8.99% increase. The entering-class count changed from 9,900 to 9,487, a 4.17% decrease. These are original changes calculated from the two university releases; neither supplies the missing Fall 2026 offers denominator/numerator pair.

The Fall 2025 residency columns answer different questions

C1 separately reports in-state, out-of-state, international and unknown residency. The published counts below reconcile to the overall first-year totals. Out-of-state excludes the separately reported international column; combining those populations would produce a different statistic.

These are original admitted/applicant calculations from the institutional table, rounded to two decimals. They describe the reported groups, not an automatic-admit/non-automatic-admit breakdown, a McCombs rate or an individual probability.

Automatic admission and major selection need their own context

UT’s review page lists top-5% class-rank thresholds for eligible Summer/Fall 2027 and Spring 2028 freshman applicants, with the required eligibility conditions. Read those conditions for the relevant entry term; a class-rank threshold is not the percentage of all applicants admitted. Current review and automatic-admission rules

The overall rate combines different applicant groups. Read the CDS C1 residency columns separately; an overall percentage is not an out-of-state or international rate. Automatic-admission eligibility, the non-automatic review pool and the competitiveness of the selected major are further distinctions.

Major selection is part of UT’s review process. Before turning a university-level percentage into a claim about a particular program, find a program-specific source with a defined year and applicant group.

A transfer rate is not an easier-admission shortcut

The transfer and first-year rates above are numerically close, but the pools are different. Transfer candidates bring college coursework and apply under transfer requirements. Their cohort rate does not measure what would happen if a particular freshman applicant waited and reapplied.

Keep external transfer separate from internal transfer by a student already enrolled at UT. The maintained McCombs internal-transfer guide follows that different process and its official sources.

For an application decision, use the current program’s prerequisites, required materials and entry term. The historical table is useful context for selectivity; it does not replace that checklist.

McCombs publishes a separate 2025 BBA figure, discussed in the BBA acceptance guide. The Graduate School admissions dashboard describes graduate populations. Neither is a replacement for this university-wide undergraduate cohort.

Use the current application cycle after the historical comparison

For a new first-year application, use UT’s current freshman checklist and MyStatus to distinguish submitted materials from a completed file. The review page gives the applicable automatic-admission cohort and separates major selection from the university admission decision.

Then compare the 2026–27 tuition and attendance budget, your intended program and an affordable alternative. A cohort percentage describes what happened to that reported pool; it is not a personal application forecast.

Use the rate for context, then plan the actual decision

An applicant can use the cohort and source date to make comparisons consistently, then investigate the academic program and financial commitment. The UT cost-of-attendance guide separates the university’s budget estimate from a tuition bill and a housing contract.

Students preparing to enroll can move to registration and waitlists and degree-audit planning. Those guides address the decisions that follow admission without treating a historical acceptance rate as a personal probability.

Supporting material

• Download the cohort comparison

  Original applicants/offers/enrollment calculations with the source, cohort, missing 2026 offers and check date.