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The University of Texas at El Paso was awarded 23 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is nursing.
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College Factual ranked UTEP as #1,229 out of 2,152 colleges and universities in the country on its 2025 Best Colleges list.
UTEP also holds the #49 spot on the Best Colleges in Texas ranking.
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Because it has a high acceptance rate of 100%, some consider UTEP to be a safety school. But don't just assume that admittance is in the bag. Make sure to spend enough time on your application so that it is in tip-top shape.
About 58% of students accepted to UTEP submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 440 and 550. Math scores were between 430 and 540.
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The student to faculty ratio at The University of Texas at El Paso is 19 to 1, which is high when compared to the national average of 15 to 1. This may indicate that some of your classes will be larger in size than they would be at other schools. However, upper level classes will probably be smaller.
Another measure that is often used to estimate how much access students will have to their professors is how many faculty members are full-time. The idea here is that part-time faculty tend to spend less time on campus, so they may not be as available to students as full-timers.
The full-time faculty percentage at The University of Texas at El Paso is 69%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
The University of Texas at El Paso has a freshmen retention rate of 75%. That's a good sign that full-time students like the school and their professors enough to want to stick around for another year. It's also a sign that the admissions team did a good job in choosing applicants who were a good fit for the school.
The on-time graduation rate is the percent of first-time, full time students who obtain their bachelor's degree in four years or less. This rate is 18% for first-time, full-time students at UTEP, which is lower than the national rate of 33.3%.
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During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 21,117 undergraduates at UTEP with 14,632 being full-time and 6,485 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $8,687 | $9,349 | $11,072 | $14,970 | $17,731 |
The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.Note that the net price is typically less than the published for a school. For more information on the sticker price of UTEP, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
It's not uncommon for college students to take out loans to pay for school. In fact, almost 66% of students nationwide depend at least partially on loans. At UTEP, approximately 20% of students took out student loans averaging $4,735 a year. That adds up to $18,940 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for UTEP are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 500 W. University Ave, El Paso, TX 79968-0691 |
| Phone: | 915-747-5000 |
| Website: | https://www.utep.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Nursing | 512 | $72,429 |
| General Biology | 309 | $22,167 |
| Criminal Justice & Corrections | 294 | $33,304 |
| Mechanical Engineering | 252 | $62,393 |
| Business Administration & Management | 243 | $37,140 |
| General Education | 217 | NA |
| Accounting | 207 | $37,562 |
| Interdisciplinary Studies | 197 | NA |
| Health & Physical Education | 177 | $23,010 |
| General Psychology | 177 | $27,627 |
Online learning is becoming popular at even the oldest colleges and universities in the United States. Not only are online classes great for returning adults with busy schedules, they are also frequented by a growing number of traditional students.
In 2022-2023, 10,863 students took at least one online class at The University of Texas at El Paso. This is a decrease from the 14,902 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 10,863 | 2,218 |
| 2021-2022 | 14,902 | 3,739 |
| 2020-2021 | 23,960 | 21,559 |
| 2018-2019 | 9,827 | 2,299 |
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Footnotes
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
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