University at Buffalo
Buffalo publishes 81% (Fall 2025). International applicants got in at 94%; out-of-state at 70%.
Acceptance rate
What Buffalo's 81% is made of
The published rate averages groups with very different odds. These are the splits Buffalo reports itself.
Transfer
Fall 2025 transfer entrants (CDS Section D2) · as of August 2026 · 0.81× harder than first-year
Read the transfer analysis →Part of Real Acceptance Rates, our series decomposing published rates from each school's own Common Data Set.
Testing
Test scores at Buffalo
- SAT middle 50%
- 1210–1380sum of section 25th–75th percentiles
- ACT middle 50%
- 27–32
- Average HS GPA
- 91.6/100Fall 2025 enrolled first-time first-year students (CDS 2025-26) · Source
At a glance
Size and cost
- Undergraduate enrollment
- 20,112
- Tuition (out-of-state)
- $31,536
- Category
- Public
- Admissions site
- www.buffalo.edu
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Sources
- Buffalo GPA (Fall 2025 enrolled first-time first-year students (CDS 2025-26))
- Acceptance rate, test-score percentiles, enrollment and tuition: U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard, pulled 2026-08-19.
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