University of Kansas
Kansas publishes 93% (Fall 2025). International applicants got in at 94%; out-of-state at 92%.
- Acceptance rate
- 94%
- College Scorecard, latest cycle
- SAT middle 50%
- 1070–1300
- Section 25th–75th, summed
- ACT middle 50%
- 20–28
- Avg. HS GPA
- 3.71
- Fall 2025 entering class (CDS 2025-2026, Section C, item C12)
- Test policy
- Not published
- Regular deadline
- Not published
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Acceptance rate
What Kansas's 93% is made of
The published rate averages groups with very different odds. These are the splits Kansas reports itself.
Transfer
84%
Transfer applicants
93%
First-year applicants
Fall 2025 transfer entrants (CDS Section D2) · as of August 2026 · 0.91× 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 Kansas
- SAT middle 50%
- 1070–1300sum of section 25th–75th percentiles
- ACT middle 50%
- 20–28
- Average HS GPA
- 3.71Fall 2025 entering class (CDS 2025-2026, Section C, item C12) · Source
At a glance
Size and cost
- Undergraduate enrollment
- 21,217
- Tuition (out-of-state)
- $30,432
- Category
- Public
- Admissions site
- ku.edu
Sources
- Kansas GPA (Fall 2025 entering class (CDS 2025-2026, Section C, item C12))
- Acceptance rate, test-score percentiles, enrollment and tuition: U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard, pulled 2026-09-14.
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