College profile
United States Air Force Academy
CO · Public · Fringe rural · 9,543 applicants 2023
Parent/student verdict
Highly selectiveHighly selective reach for nearly every applicant.
Best for
- Strong academic profiles — students here cluster in the top test and GPA tiers (bands above)
- Students drawn to Engineering or Business, Management, & Marketing (the two biggest majors)
The reality
- You'd be near the bottom of their admitted class if: SAT below 1250, or ACT below 26, or unweighted GPA below 3.60 (test bands are the school's own; the 3.60 line is our estimate, not a published figure)
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Institutional snapshot
What kind of college is this?
Source: federal IPEDS Admissions 2023 for scores + admit rate; federal College Scorecard (20260606 vintage) for earnings + outcomes. SAT/ACT bands are the 25th–75th percentile of enrolled submitters.
High-school GPA
3.80 avg unweightedGPA on the plain 4.0 scale, no honors/AP bonus. When a college publishes an "average admitted GPA of 3.9," it's often this scale — don't compare it to a weighted 4.3. GPA, enrolled first-years
Enrolled first-years by GPA band: 4.00 25.0% · 3.75-3.99 55.0% · 3.50-3.74 10.0% · 3.25-3.49 6.0% · 3.00-3.24 2.0% · 2.50-2.99 2.0%
unweighted 4.0 scale. United States Air Force Academy Common Data Set 2022-2023, Section C (C10 class rank, C11 GPA distribution, C12 average high school GPA) ↗
As published by the college in its Common Data Set / admissions data (2022-23) (source linked above). GPA basis (weighted vs. unweighted vs. 4.0-scale) varies by college and is labeled above.
Outcomes & cost
What graduates actually earn, finish, and owe.
Federal College Scorecard data. Earnings are median annual income measured years after entering. Debt is for federal-aid borrowers only (cash-pay students aren't counted).
The real cost
What United States Air Force Academy actually costs
The federal file doesn't carry net-price figures for United States Air Force Academy, so we can't show a with-aid and full-price range here the way we do on larger colleges. That's a gap in the government's data, not a sign this college is expensive or stingy.
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Source: federal IPEDS (published tuition) and College Scorecard, which reports net price only for colleges meeting its cohort-size and Title-IV reporting thresholds.
What students study here
Most popular majors at United States Air Force Academy
Top 5 fields of study by bachelor's degrees awarded (most recent IPEDS Completions). Use this to see what United States Air Force Academy actually graduates — not just what it markets.
Sources: IPEDS Completions (C2023_a; bachelor's-level first majors, 2-digit CIP family — share is of the top 5 only). Full college-vs-major comparison: /college-outcomes →
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Feeder high schools
Which high schools send graduates to United States Air Force Academy?
31 high schools publish a numbered matriculation list — where their graduates actually enrolled, counted, in the school's own School Profile — and name United States Air Force Academy on it. Between them they printed 46 enrolled graduates. Ranked by graduates per class year enrolling at United States Air Force Academy, from each school's own published list: the number that school printed, divided by the class years its list covers. The published total and the school's own years label are shown beside every school, so a one-year list and a five-year list can sit on the same page. A list whose class years we cannot read is not divided by a guess — it is listed below with its total instead.
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Counted from each school's own published document, linked on that school's page. A high school that is not here does not publish a numbered list we could read — that is all absence means, and it says nothing about its graduates. Where a school publishes both, the two lists are shown separately: an acceptances list is not a list of enrollments, and the two are never added together.
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At a glance
JSON · Using this page with an AI assistantUnited States Air Force Academy is a public four-year college in CO. It admitted 14% of applicants (9,543 applied, 2023). Test policy: Required.
Middle 50% of enrolled first-years who submitted that test: SAT 1250–1450, ACT 26–33. Average enrolled GPA 3.8 (unweighted, 2022-23, as published by the college).
High schools that publish a numbered matriculation list and name United States Air Force Academy: 31, 46 enrolled students between them — ranked by graduates per class year, most often Punahou School (1.0 per class year, 4 over 4 class years, the past four years (2022 – 2025)); St. Mark's School of Texas (1.0 per class year, 3 over 3 class years, Classes of 2023-2025); Brunswick School (1.0 per class year, 1 over 1 class year, Class of 2026 Matriculation; Composite Matriculation List of 2022-2026, counted column "Class of 2026 Matriculation"). Each figure is the number that school printed divided by the class years its own list covers; the totals and years are shown. These are the schools that publish such a list, not every school that sends students; full list: https://highschoolreach.com/leaderboards/feeder-schools/united-states-air-force-academy.
Machine-readable version of this page: https://highschoolreach.com/colleges/united-states-air-force-academy.json