What You'll Actually Pay
Price after grants
$15,193 to $33,797 a year for in-state students, depending on income.
College Scorecard 2024 estimate · in-state rates
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Full cost before aid: $39,426 a year in-state. Average need-based aid package: $22,502.Aid and debt
42.3%
receive need-based grants
$30,427
average debt at graduation
4,689
students got merit aid
about 22% of undergraduates
$11,624
average merit award
Getting In
Admit rates
54.4%
admitted overall
46.6%
admitted Early Decision
54.5%
admitted Regular Decision
Early Decision
Early Decision applicants were admitted at 1x the Regular Decision rate, and Early Decision is binding: you commit to attend if admitted.
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Some of that gap reflects who applies early (recruited athletes, legacy applicants and highly committed students concentrate in that pool), so it isn't proof that applying early would raise any one student's own odds.
Key dates
Test scores
SAT, middle 50% of those who submitted: 1260–1420 · 35% of the class submitted
ACT, middle 50% of those who submitted: 29–32 · 4% of the class submitted
45% were in the top 10% of their high school class.
What they value
- Considered
- Course rigor (AP/IB)
- Class rank
- GPA
- SAT/ACT scores
- Personal essay
- Recommendations
- Extracurriculars
- Special talent
- Character
- First-gen status
- Where you're from
- In-state residency
- Volunteer work
- Work experience
- Demonstrated interest
- Not considered
- Legacy status
What this means for you
UConn rates demonstrated interest 'Considered' — it can tip a close decision, without being decisive.
Source: Common Data Set 2025–26, Section C7 (admissions factors)
UConn just showed you what it values in an application. Use that to write a Why-UConn essay that's actually about you — not a template.
Get sourced starting points for your essayStudent Life
40.7% of UConn classes have fewer than 20 students.
40.7%
under 20 students
38.3%
20 to 49
21%
50 or more
Every class section counts, labs and seminars included; first-year courses tend to be larger. UConn CDS 2025–26, I-3.
17:1
student:faculty ratio
Campus life
42.1%
first-years from out of state
64%
live on campus
15%
of men in fraternities
19%
of women in sororities
Who attends
- White49.3%
- Hispanic18.1%
- Asian12.4%
- Black7.7%
- Multiracial4.8%
- Unknown / other0.8%
Enrolled undergraduates; international students are counted separately and not included. UConn CDS 2025–26, B2.
Popular majors
Will They Graduate?
73.2% of UConn students graduate in 4 years.
73.2%
finish in 4 years
Entered fall 2019
84%
finish in 6 years
Entered fall 2019
92%
return after first year
Finishing late means paying for extra semesters, so the 4-year rate is the one that shows the cost.
Students with Pell Grants
76% finish in 6 years, against 84% of all students.
An 8-point gap: Pell Grant students finish less often than students overall.
City & Culture
Beyond the data — what it's actually like to spend four years in Storrs.
Storrs is a university town in rural eastern Connecticut, roughly half an hour from Hartford and well over an hour from Boston or New York.
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Storrs Center gives campus a walkable centre of restaurants and apartments, but the university is the town rather than a part of it.
The City
College town
Storrs, CT
Best For
Notable alumni
Notable Alumni
Sue Bird
Five-time Olympic gold medallist and the WNBA's career assists leader, who won two national championships at UConn
Class of 2002
Franklin Chang Diaz
NASA astronaut who flew seven Space Shuttle missions, a record he shares, and later founded Ad Astra Rocket Company
Class of 1973
Brett McGurk
U.S. special presidential envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL, serving under three administrations
John Kim
President of New York Life Insurance, the largest mutual life insurer in the United States
Alumni selected for name recognition and range of fields. Not from the Common Data Set.
Traditions
Traditions
Midnight Madness
The first official basketball practice of the season, opened to students at midnight in Gampel Pavilion. At a school where both the men's and women's programmes are perennial national contenders, it functions as the real start of the year.
Oozeball
A mud volleyball tournament run every spring since 1983, played in fields deliberately flooded for the occasion. Hundreds of teams enter.
The Dairy Bar
Ice cream made on campus by the animal science department and sold at the Dairy Bar since the 1950s — a land-grant tradition that survived UConn becoming a research university.
Weekend escapes from Storrs
Weekend Escapes
Within driving distance from Storrs
Hartford
35 minutesThe state capital, and the nearest city with a concert calendar and an airport.
Boston
1 hour 45 minutesThe closest major city, and the practical international gateway.
Mystic & the Connecticut shoreline
50 minutesSeaport, beaches and the state's summer coastline.
Getting there and game days
Getting There & Game Days
Nearest airport
Bradley International (BDL)
45 minutes from campus
For international flights: Boston Logan International (BOS) — about 1 hour 45 minutes by road.
Pro sports nearby
- Connecticut Sun WNBA
- Hartford Wolf Pack AHL
Internships and jobs nearby
Career Proximity
UConn's pipeline runs on Hartford's insurance and financial-services cluster, one of the largest in the country, plus a growing bioscience presence at UConn Health in Farmington.
Top Industries Nearby
Major Employers
- The Hartford
- Travelers
- Aetna
- Pratt & Whitney
- Electric Boat
- UConn Health
Hartford, 35 minutes
Who thrives here
Who Thrives Here
UConn admits 54.4% of applicants, which makes it a realistic target rather than a reach for a solid student, and its 21,042 undergraduates sit on a genuinely rural campus in Storrs — not a city school. The trade-off is money, and it is the number to read first: UConn meets 62.9% of demonstrated need, well short of full, and graduates carry $30,427 in average debt. In-state tuition is $21,574 against $44,242 from out of state, so this is a much stronger proposition for a Connecticut family than for one crossing state lines. Academically it runs like a big public — 40.7% of classes have fewer than 20 students and the student-faculty ratio is 17 to 1 — and 73.2% finish in four years, 84.0% in six. Applying Early Decision is not the lever it is elsewhere: UConn admitted 46.6% of its binding ED pool against 54.4% overall, so the binding commitment buys no edge in the published rates. Culturally, basketball is not a side attraction: it is the thing the campus organises itself around, and 64% of undergraduates live on campus in a town where the university is essentially the whole economy. A student who wants a city at the door should look elsewhere.