UT Austin transfer acceptance rate: read the cohort
The reported transfer rate is a cohort calculation. Build your application around the credit, major and document requirements.
In this guide
UT Austin’s Fall 2025 transfer acceptance rate was 21.96%, calculated as 2,672 admits ÷ 12,168 applicants in the university’s 2025–26 Common Data Set, D2, PDF page 24. This is the university-wide historical cohort, not a McCombs admit rate or an individual probability; the 2,026 enrolled students are a different numerator.
For a new external-transfer application, check the intended term, transferable-coursework threshold, both major choices and materials deadline. Current UT students changing majors use internal transfer, and international transfer applicants have separate instructions.
Historical Fall 2025 transfer totals from 2025–26 CDS D2 (PDF page 24); their original observation date is retained. Current domestic transfer/credit instructions reviewed October 27, 2026. Derived rates and deadline separations are arithmetic context, not major-specific odds, a credit evaluation or an extension.
Choose the transfer question
Choose your situation below. The checklist links to the relevant official route; it does not evaluate a transcript, submit an application or predict a decision.
Choose the transfer route or outstanding check
I am applying from another college
Check the entry term and 24-hour rule before treating the cohort rate as useful context.
- Confirm the domestic or international route.
- Check required transferable coursework and major prerequisites.
- Track the application and every supplemental item separately.
I want spring entry with courses still in progress
The domestic page does not allow in-progress coursework to meet the spring threshold.
- Read the spring-specific 24-hour condition.
- Check the intended major’s spring availability and prerequisites.
- Resolve eligibility with Admissions before assuming a future course counts.
I am already a UT student changing majors
Internal transfer is a separate school process.
- Identify the destination school and actual internal-transfer cycle.
- Check its prerequisites and UT/residence-hour limits.
- Use the school process rather than the external cohort percentage.
I need to know how a course transfers
An equivalency and a degree requirement are different decisions.
- Find the sending-school course and current offering.
- Use ATE or the applicable official evaluation route.
- Check program use and unresolved prerequisites with the responsible office.
My application is submitted but items remain
A submission receipt is not a complete materials checklist.
- Check each institution attended and major-specific required item.
- Use the current supplemental deadline and MyStatus.
- Do not assume one school’s transcript replaces another institution’s record.
Keep applicants, admits and enrollment separate
The published Common Data Set describes Fall 2025 transfer entry. The document’s 2025–26 title is its reporting edition, not a claim about a newly completed Fall 2026 cohort. Retain that year whenever comparing this percentage with another source.
The rate is also university-wide. It does not reveal the admit rate for a particular college, the distribution of applicant GPAs or the outcome for a student with your courses. Use it for institutional context, then build a requirement-by-requirement application plan.
Two additional calculations show why the labels matter. Enrolled ÷ admitted is 2,026 ÷ 2,672 ≈ 75.82%, a reported-cohort yield comparison. Enrolled ÷ applicants is 2,026 ÷ 12,168 ≈ 16.65%, not the 21.96% admission rate. These are original arithmetic from the same three D2 totals, not separate applicant groups or predictions.
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| Fall 2025 transfer measure | Reported count | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Applicants | 12,168 | The denominator for the admission rate |
| Admitted | 2,672 | The numerator for the admission rate |
| Enrolled | 2,026 | Students who entered; not the number admitted |
| Admitted ÷ applicants | 21.96% | Rounded calculation from the two published counts |
Source: UT Austin 2025–26 Common Data Set, section D2, PDF page 24; retained historical cohort. Admission rate = 2,672 ÷ 12,168. New calculations do not add major-level data.
Check which transfer route applies
UT’s domestic transfer page describes students who began college after high school or a GED and have or will earn 24 semester hours of required transferable coursework. It explicitly says spring applicants cannot use coursework still in progress to meet that condition. International applicants have a separate instructions page.
External transfer is also different from changing majors after enrolling at UT. Current UT students should follow the internal-transfer process for the destination school. In particular, the maintained McCombs internal-transfer guide addresses that separate route.
Keep the application and materials dates separate
The current domestic transfer page lists March 1 for the summer/fall application and March 10 for supplemental materials. It lists September 1 and September 8 respectively for spring. Confirm the entry cycle and any major-specific instructions on that official page before relying on a saved date.
Create two completion checks: application submitted and required materials received. A submission receipt does not establish that each transcript, essay or additional major item has been processed. Use MyStatus to track the outstanding items and keep the materials deadline beside each one.
The listed application and materials dates are nine calendar days apart for summer/fall and seven for spring. That original date comparison does not create a grace period for the application. Keep two separate completion states and confirm how each required item is received in MyStatus.
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| Entry term | Application | Supplemental materials | Decision release listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Summer/Fall | March 1 | March 10 | June 30 |
| Spring | September 1 | September 8 | December 15 |
Current domestic-transfer page reviewed October 27, 2026. These recurring month/day labels require the actual entry cycle and major-specific check; no automatic deadline extension is inferred.
Separate transferable credit from degree usefulness
Admissions’ transfer-credit resource explains that Admissions evaluates whether coursework transfers and the academic program determines how it applies to degree requirements. For Texas coursework, the Automated Transfer Equivalency system supplies course evaluations. A course that transfers is not automatically the prerequisite your intended major requires.
Make a course matrix with sending-school code, proposed UT equivalent, requirement and evidence still needed. Check first- and second-choice majors. If an evaluation is unresolved, mark it unresolved rather than counting the course toward a threshold or assuming it replaces a required sequence.
Admissions’ credit resource separately describes transferability, GPA scope and degree use: grades below C− do not transfer, transfer grades are excluded from internal UT GPA, and programs decide how accepted courses apply. ATE includes discontinued courses too; check the sending institution’s current offering instead of treating an equivalency record as an available class.
Audit the institutions as well as the courses
Admissions requires records from the institutions you attended, including relevant dual-credit and transferred coursework. Its transcript instructions distinguish official copies from screenshots and advising reports. Follow the instructions for your student type and use the status checklist to identify anything still missing.
Once admitted, keep the admission decision separate from the subsequent credit and degree audit. The IDA guide helps with the latter. For the first-year cohort and automatic-admission distinction, use the separate first-year admissions explainer.
Use Admissions’ transfer-credit resources for related equivalency and degree-planning links.
Questions answered
What transfer acceptance rate does this guide report?
Fall 2025’s aggregate rate is 2,672 ÷ 12,168 ≈ 21.96% from CDS D2. It is a historical university-wide measure, not a particular major’s rate or your personal odds.
UT 2025–26 CDS — D2, PDF page 24 · Checked 2026-10-26
Is enrolled divided by applicants the admission rate?
No. Admission uses admitted ÷ applicants. The same totals give about 75.82% enrolled ÷ admitted and 16.65% enrolled ÷ applicants; those are different measures.
UT 2025–26 CDS — D2, PDF page 24 · Checked 2026-10-26
Can spring applicants count coursework in progress toward 24 hours?
The domestic transfer page says the in-progress option is not available for spring applicants. Check required transferable coursework and the applicable major/entry term directly.
UT Admissions — domestic external transfer · Checked 2026-10-27
When are application and supplemental materials due?
The current domestic page lists March 1/March 10 for summer/fall and September 1/September 8 for spring, with June 30/December 15 decisions respectively. Confirm the actual cycle and required items.
UT Admissions — domestic external transfer · Checked 2026-10-27
Does transferable credit automatically satisfy my major?
No. Admissions evaluates transferability; academic programs determine how accepted courses apply to degree requirements. An ATE match does not by itself establish the intended degree use.
UT Admissions — transfer-credit scope · Checked 2026-10-27
Is external transfer the same as McCombs internal transfer?
No. External transfer concerns entry from another institution. A current UT student seeking another major follows the destination school’s internal-transfer process.
UT Admissions — domestic external transfer · Checked 2026-10-27
Sources & dates
- UT Institutional Reporting — 2025–26 CDS D2, PDF page 24Verified 2026-10-26
- UT Admissions — domestic transfer eligibility, dates and materialsVerified 2026-10-27
- UT Admissions — transfer credit resources and evaluationsVerified 2026-10-27
- UT Admissions — transcript submission instructions by student typeVerified 2026-10-26