The average acceptance rate of the 60 Texas colleges that have competitive admission is 76.13% for the academic year 2023-2024. Compared to last year, the acceptance rate is lower by 1.25%. The acceptance rate at 26 Texas colleges increased and the rate of 34 colleges decreased.
Rice University has the lowest (i.e. hard to admit) acceptance rate of 8.00%. Trinity University (28.00%) and The University of Texas at Austin (29.00%) are following it in the list of Tightest Texas Colleges to get in.
This ranking is only based on acceptance rates and more admission stats such as SAT and ACT scores are helpful to measure the chances to get in more accurately.
Rice University stays at first place of the lowest acceptance rate ranking since last year. Trinity University also maintained its second place in the ranking.
The average undergraduate tuition & fees of the schools is $43,931 and graduate tuition & fees is $28,419 for the academic year 2023-2024.
We note that the actual tightness of admission lies in considering other admission requirements such as SAT score.