The University
of Texas at San Antonio
Public Research University in San Antonio, TX. Six-year graduation rate 53%. Median 10-year earnings $57,131.
The median ten-year earnings figure of $57,131 sits near the national middle rather than at either extreme. The six-year graduation rate is 53%, meaning about one in two students who start do not finish. Graduates carry a median of $20,500 in debt — in line with the national norm. On economic mobility, 2.9% of students travel from the bottom income quintile to the top.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Admissions
The University of Texas at San Antonio admits 87% of applicants — effectively open admission, so the application is a formality rather than a hurdle. With 25,422 applications received, this is a school operating at national scale. 27% of those admitted enroll, which is unremarkable in either direction. Read the score bands below as the middle 50% of submitted scores, not a threshold to clear.
Test score bands (middle 50% of submitters)
These bands describe the enrolled first-years who submitted a score, not the entering class. Where most students apply test-optional the submitters are a self-selected, higher-scoring group.
| Test | 25th–75th percentile | Submitted |
|---|---|---|
| SAT Evidence-Based Reading | 510–620 | 3,648 (61%) |
| SAT Math | 490–600 | |
| ACT Composite | 19–25 | 416 (7%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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Completion is middling: 53% finish inside six years. Retention is strong at 80%, and first-year attrition is where most degrees are lost. The distance between those two figures is the part worth noticing — students return for a second year at a much higher rate than they graduate, so attrition here is spread across the middle years rather than concentrated in the first. 20% transfer out. IPEDS does not follow them, so whether they finished elsewhere is not recorded either way. The part-time picture is harder: 35% return, against 80% full-time.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 29,675 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $10,959 annually, well below typical undergraduate net price. Aid is steeply need-based: families in the $0–30k band pay $7,870 while those at $110k+ pay $20,489. 71% of students receive grant aid, averaging $8,961 — common but not automatic. 40% of students take federal loans, a middling borrowing rate.
Entering first-year students
A different, smaller group than the rates above: full-time students in their first year of college anywhere. The grant series here also excludes the "other sources" counted in the all-undergraduate figure, so the two are not comparable.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · 4,872 students
Net price by family income
The same students as the headline above, limited to those who received Title IV federal aid — a narrower group, with a lower overall average. IPEDS publishes no combined figure across these bands, so they should not be averaged into one.
| Family income band | Average net price |
|---|---|
| $0–30k | $7,870 |
| $30–48k | $7,847 |
| $48–75k | $9,172 |
| $75–110k | $15,446 |
| $110k+ | $20,489 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 11,868 of these 29,675 students, totalling $77,327,268 — an average of $6,516 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Bexar County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026
Veterans & GI Bill
VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)