University of New Hampshire-Main Campus
New Hampshire publishes 89% (Fall 2025). Out-of-state applicants got in at 90%; international at 85%.
- Acceptance rate
- 88%
- College Scorecard, latest cycle
- SAT middle 50%
- 1090–1330
- Section 25th–75th, summed
- ACT middle 50%
- 26–30
- Avg. HS GPA
- 3.64
- Fall 2025 entering class (CDS 2025-2026, item C12)
- Test policy
- Not published
- Regular deadline
- Not published
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Acceptance rate
What New Hampshire's 89% is made of
The published rate averages groups with very different odds. These are the splits New Hampshire reports itself.
Transfer
Fall 2025 transfer entrants (CDS Section D2) · as of August 2026 · 1.01× easier 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 New Hampshire
- SAT middle 50%
- 1090–1330sum of section 25th–75th percentiles
- ACT middle 50%
- 26–30
- Average HS GPA
- 3.64Fall 2025 entering class (CDS 2025-2026, item C12) · Source
At a glance
Size and cost
- Undergraduate enrollment
- 11,261
- Tuition (out-of-state)
- $39,852
- Category
- Public
- Admissions site
- www.unh.edu
Sources
- New Hampshire GPA (Fall 2025 entering class (CDS 2025-2026, 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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