University of Illinois Chicago
UIC publishes 77% (Fall 2024). Out-of-state applicants got in at 80%; international at 51%.
- Acceptance rate
- 77%
- College Scorecard, latest cycle
- SAT middle 50%
- 1130–1350
- Section 25th–75th, summed
- ACT middle 50%
- 25–31
- Avg. HS GPA
- 3.45
- Fall 2025 entering class (CDS 2025-26, section C12)
- Test policy
- Not published
- Regular deadline
- Not published
More detail: SAT and ACT requirements · GPA requirements · Majors and earnings · What they look for · Merit and financial aid · AP credit
Acceptance rate
What UIC's 77% is made of
The published rate averages groups with very different odds. These are the splits UIC reports itself.
Transfer
55%
Transfer applicants
76%
First-year applicants
Fall 2025 transfer entrants (CDS Section D2) · as of August 2026 · 0.73× 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 UIC
- SAT middle 50%
- 1130–1350sum of section 25th–75th percentiles
- ACT middle 50%
- 25–31
- Average HS GPA
- 3.45Fall 2025 entering class (CDS 2025-26, section C12) · Source
At a glance
Size and cost
- Undergraduate enrollment
- 22,170
- Tuition (out-of-state)
- $29,884
- Category
- Public
- Admissions site
- www.uic.edu
Sources
- UIC GPA (Fall 2025 entering class (CDS 2025-26, section C12))
- Acceptance rate, test-score percentiles, enrollment and tuition: U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard, pulled 2026-09-14.
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