University of Nevada-Las Vegas
Las Vegas, Nevada · Public · 24,622 undergraduates · unlv.edu
Test policy (fall 2027)
Test optional
Sending scores is your choice
Admit rate
84%
of 15,271 applicants
SAT (middle 50%)
1030 to 1240
of enrolled freshmen
Annual cost (2027-28)
$31,650Est.Estimate
$50,210 out of state
Your chances and merit aid at University of Nevada-Las Vegas
See where you stand for admission, how much merit aid you could get, and what you'd pay after it.
We started you at a typical enrolled freshman here. Move the sliders to match you.
Your admission chances
84% of applicants admitted
Target
Your SAT is inside the range where the middle half of enrolled freshmen scored, and your GPA is in the middle half of freshmen's.
Estimated merit aid
a year
Your cost after merit aid
$50,210
a year in 2027-28, from a $50,210 sticker price (out of state)
What to do with your 1130
Send your score
About 43% of freshmen here didn't send a score. We estimate their typical SAT at about 960, and yours is above it.
Reach, target and likely are a rough guide from your test score and how selective the college is. Admissions also weigh your courses, grades, essays and activities. Merit aid figures are estimates, before any need-based aid.
Admissions
Test policy for fall 2027
Test optional
You choose whether to send an SAT or ACT score. If you send one, it's considered.
- Admission requirement can be met by 3.0 GPA in 13 core units OR 1120 SAT (EBRW + Math) OR 22 ACT composite OR Nevada Advanced / College and Career Ready diploma.
Source: First-Year Students | Admissions | UNLV · Checked October 17, 2026
Application deadlines
- Nov1Other deadline · November 1, 2026
- Jun1Regular Decision · June 1, 2027The standard deadline.
Who gets in
84%
of applicants were admitted: 12,820 of 15,271 for fall 2025.
Test scores of enrolled freshmen (fall 2025)
The shaded part shows the middle half of enrolled freshmen who sent scores: a quarter scored below it and a quarter above. 10% of them sent SAT scores and 60% sent ACT scores.
SAT total 1030 to 1240
Reading and Writing 520 to 640
Math 490 to 620
ACT composite 18 to 24
How enrolled freshmen scored on the SAT
- 1400 to 16005.6%
- 1200 to 139928%
- 1000 to 119947%
- 800 to 99919%
- 600 to 7990.9%
- 400 to 5990%
Source: Common Data Set 2025-2026
High school GPA of enrolled freshmen
Average GPA: 3.40
- 4.04%
- 3.75 to 3.9921%
- 3.50 to 3.7421%
- 3.25 to 3.4920%
- 3.00 to 3.2417%
- 2.50 to 2.9914%
- Below 2.502.7%
Cost and financial aid
The sticker price is what a year costs before any aid. Most students pay less after grants and scholarships.
Sticker price for 2027-28Estimate
$31,650
a year, in state
$50,210
a year, out of state (tuition $28,210)
- Tuition (in state)$9,650
- Fees$1,140
- Food and housing$13,580
- Books and supplies$1,280
- Transportation and other$6,000
University of Nevada-Las Vegas published $30,739 in state for 2026-27. Its 2027-28 prices aren't out yet.
Source: Common Data Set 2025-2026
What families actually pay
What a year cost on average after grants and scholarships, for freshmen who got federal aid in 2023-24 (in-state students), by family income.
- $0 to $30,000$9,250
- $30,001 to $48,000$9,051
- $48,001 to $75,000$10,067
- $75,001 to $110,000$13,684
- Over $110,000$16,498
Financial aid
52%
of a student's financial need is covered, on average
$6,293
average need-based grant to freshmen, money you don't repay
17%
of freshmen got merit aid without financial need, $4,600 on average
- FAFSA
- Required for need-based aid. It's the free federal aid form.
- CSS Profile
- Not required. Only the FAFSA is needed.
- Aid priority date: 11/15
- Send your aid forms by this date to be first in line for the college's grant money.
Source: Common Data Set 2025-2026
Merit scholarships
Awards for grades and scores, on top of need-based aid. You don't repay them.
President's Scholarship
$10,000 a year
National Merit
Deadline: List UNLV as first choice by May 1. To keep it: a 2.0 college GPA, stay a full-time student (at least 12 credit hours) every semester, and file the FAFSA or the college's own aid application by the priority deadline each year; it stops once you've taken 135 credit hours.
Details
Nevada programs for residents
Governor Guinn Millennium Scholarship
State program · In-state students
$80/credit at universities and other eligible institutions; $60/credit Nevada State; $40/credit lower-division and $60/credit upper-division at NSHE community colleges; max 15 credits/semester
- 3.25+ GPA, 1070+ SAT or 21+ ACT, Non-high-school graduate (e.g., HSE); Would have graduated after May 1, 2000; GPA on courses completed in a Nevada high school
- 3.25+ GPA, 1070+ SAT or 21+ ACT, Out-of-state HS graduate whose parent/guardian is a Nevada resident; HS diploma (any state), class of 2017+; parent NV resident last 2 yrs of HS and student financially dependent
- 1070+ SAT or 21+ ACT, Test-score alternative to 3.25 GPA (Nevada HS graduate); Nevada HS diploma; core curriculum; class of 2016 or later
Compare awards across colleges with the merit aid calculator.
AP credit
AP exams that earn credit can replace college courses, so you pay for fewer of them and may graduate sooner.
AP exams that earn credit
40 of 40
Earn credit with a score of 3
40 exams
A 3-credit course is worth
about $970Est.Estimate
at 2027-28 tuition for in-state students
Credit for each AP exam
| Exam | Score needed | Credits | Counts as |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2-D Art and Design | 3 | 3 | General Education Fine Arts |
| 3-D Art and Design | 3 | 3 | General Education Fine Arts |
| African American Studies | 3 | 3 | AAS 101 |
| Art History | 3 | 3 | General Education Fine Arts |
| Biology | 3 | 3 | General Education Science without Lab |
| Biology | 4 | 3 | BIOL 189A |
| Biology | 5 | 6 | BIOL 189A and either BIOL 190A or 191A with Advisor Evaluation |
| Calculus AB | 3 | 4 | MATH 181 |
| Calculus BC | 3 | 4 | MATH 181 |
| Calculus BC | 4 | 8 | MATH 181 and 182 |
| Chemistry | 3 | 4 | CHEM 121A and CHEM 121L |
| Chemistry | 4 | 8 | CHEM 121A and CHEM 121L + CHEM 122A and CHEM 122L |
| Chinese Language and Culture | 3 | 3 | CHI 113 |
| Chinese Language and Culture | 4 | 6 | CHI 113 & 114 |
| Comparative Government and Politics | 3 | 3 | PSC 211 |
| Computer Science A | 3 | 3 | CS 135 |
| Computer Science Principles | 3 | 3 | CS Lower-Division Elective |
| Drawing | 3 | 3 | General Education Fine Arts |
| English Language and Composition | 3 | 3 | ENG 101 |
| English Literature and Composition | 3 | 3 | ENG 101 |
| Environmental Science | 3 | 3 | ENV Lower-Division Elective |
| Environmental Science | 4 | 3 | ENV 101 |
| European History | 3 | 3 | HIST 106T |
| European History | 4 | 6 | HIST 106T + 3 credits General Elective - History |
| French Language and Culture | 3 | 3 | FREN 113 |
| French Language and Culture | 4 | 6 | FREN 113 & 114 |
| German Language and Culture | 3 | 3 | GER 113 |
| German Language and Culture | 4 | 6 | GER 113 & 114 |
| Human Geography | 3 | 3 | General Elective - Social Science |
| Italian Language and Culture | 3 | 3 | ITAL 113 |
| Italian Language and Culture | 4 | 6 | ITAL 113 & 114 |
| Japanese Language and Culture | 3 | 3 | JPN 113 |
| Japanese Language and Culture | 4 | 6 | JPN 113 & 114 |
| Latin | 3 | 3 | LAT 113 |
| Latin | 4 | 6 | LAT 113 & 114 |
| Macroeconomics | 3 | 3 | General Elective - Economics |
| Macroeconomics | 4 | 3 | ECON 103 |
| Microeconomics | 3 | 3 | General Elective - Economics |
| Microeconomics | 4 | 3 | ECON 102 |
| Music Theory | 3 | 3 | General Elective - Music |
| Physics 1 | 3 | 3 | General Education Science without Lab |
| Physics 1 | 4 | 6 | PHYS 151A & 152A |
| Physics 2 | 3 | 3 | General Education Science without Lab |
| Physics 2 | 4 | 6 | PHYS 151A & 152A |
| Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism | 3 | 3 | General Education Science without Lab |
| Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism | 4 | 3 | PHYS 181 or PHYS 196 with Advisor Evaluation |
| Physics C: Mechanics | 3 | 3 | General Education Science without Lab |
| Physics C: Mechanics | 4 | 3 | PHYS 180 or PHYS 195 with Advisor Evaluation |
| Pre-Calculus | 3 | 3 | MATH 126 |
| Pre-Calculus | 4 | 3 | MATH 127 |
| Psychology | 3 | 3 | PSY 101 |
| Research | 3 | 3 | General Elective |
| Research | 5 | 3 | ENG 102 |
| Seminar | 3 | 3 | General Elective |
| Spanish Language and Culture | 3 | 3 | SPAN 113 |
| Spanish Language and Culture | 4 | 6 | SPAN 113 & 114 |
| Spanish Literature and Culture | 3 | 3 | SPAN 113 |
| Spanish Literature and Culture | 4 | 6 | SPAN 113 & 114 |
| Statistics | 3 | 3 | STAT 152 |
| United States Government and Politics | 3 | 3 | General Education U.S. Constitution |
| United States History | 3 | 3 | HIST 101 or 102T |
| United States History | 4 | 6 | HIST 101 & 102T |
| World History: Modern | 3 | 3 | General Elective - History |
Source: AP credit policy
After college
Graduate within 6 years
52%
Come back for a second year
79%
Typical earnings
$62,536
a year, 10 years after starting here
- University of Nevada-Las Vegas$64,454
- All colleges$60,194
Median yearly earnings of graduates five years after finishing a bachelor's in this major. 43 majors here have earnings data.
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