At a Glance
UConn admits 54.4% of applicants.
What You'll Actually Pay
See what families at different income levels actually pay after aid.
What families actually pay, by income level
After grants and scholarships. Before loans. Public school prices shown at in-state rates.
Source: College Scorecard / IPEDS, 2024-25
Where the Sticker Price Goes
Based on average need-based grant. Actual cost varies by family income — see chart above.
Shown at in-state rates.
Debt at Graduation
42.3%
receive need-based grant aid
$30,427
average debt at graduation
UConn graduates carry an average of $30,427 in debt.
Merit Aid
4,689
students received merit aid
$11,624
average merit award
Getting In
UConn admits 54.4% of applicants.
University of Connecticut's Early Decision applicants are admitted at 1x the rate of Regular Decision applicants — 46.6% vs 54.5%. Note: ED is binding — you commit to attending if admitted.
SAT — Middle 50% of those who submitted · 35% of the class submitted
ACT — Middle 50% of those who submitted · 4% of the class submitted
45% were in the top 10% of their high school class.
What They Value
Academic
Nonacademic
University of Connecticut gives essays less weight than many schools — academics drive most admissions decisions here. Demonstrated interest is Considered — showing genuine engagement with this school may help your application.
Student Life
40.7% of UConn classes have fewer than 20 students.
Share of undergraduate class sections at each size, from CDS Section I-3. More red = more large lectures.
At UConn, 40.7% of your classes will have fewer than 20 students.
Class size data reflects all undergraduate sections including labs, seminars, and lectures. Large research universities often have smaller upper-division and graduate-level sections that improve the overall distribution. First and second-year students typically experience larger classes than these averages suggest.
Source: Common Data Set 2025–26, Section I-3 (class sizes)
17:1
student:faculty ratio
Campus Life
From out of state (freshman class)
42.1%
Live on campus
64%
Men in fraternities
15%
Women in sororities
19%
Who Attends
Racial and ethnic breakdown of enrolled undergraduates, as reported in each school's Common Data Set. "Unknown / Other" includes students who did not report or selected "other."
UConn's student body is 49.3% white.
Popular Majors
Will They Graduate?
UConn graduates 73.2% of students in 4 years.
Graduating late means paying for extra semesters. The 6-year rate tells you who eventually finishes — the 4-year rate tells you what it actually costs.
UConn graduates 73.2% of students in 4 years.
What finishing late actually costs
Based on each school's published cost of attendance. Public school costs shown at in-state rates.
UConn
73.2%
4-yr grad rate
Extra year cost: $39,426*
* In-state cost of attendance. Out-of-state students pay significantly more.
Graduation rate data from Common Data Set 2025–26, Fall 2018 cohort (most recent available). 4-year rate = students completing in 4 years or less. 6-year rate = students completing within 6 years.
84%
Overall 6-yr rate
76%
Pell recipient rate
An 8 point graduation gap between lower-income and overall students suggests financial or academic challenges for some students.
Freshman Retention
92%
92% of first-year students return for sophomore year.
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. Storrs Center gives campus a walkable centre of restaurants and apartments, but the university is the town rather than a part of it.
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.
The City
College town
Storrs, CT
Best For
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
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 & 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
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
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 63.1% 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.