{"answer":"In Fall 2025 the UC system admitted 76.8 percent of California-resident applicants. It admitted 68.3 percent of international applicants and 61.7 percent of out-of-state applicants. Campus by campus, the order flips. At every campus except UC Berkeley and UC Merced, out-of-state applicants were admitted at a higher rate than Californians.","as_of":"October 2026","date":"2026-10-15","dek":"The table holds Fall 2025 first-year applicants, admits and the admit rate for each group, by campus, plus a systemwide row. The systemwide row counts each applicant once. The campus rows do not.","faq":[{"a":"At every campus except UC Berkeley and UC Merced, out-of-state applicants were admitted at a higher rate than Californians.","q":"Is it easier to get into a UC campus from out of state?"},{"a":"UCLA admitted 9.6 percent of Californians.","q":"What is UCLA's admit rate for California students?"},{"a":"It is a Californian's chance of getting in somewhere in the system, not at any one campus.","q":"Why is the systemwide UC admit rate so much higher than each campus?"}],"findings":[{"h":"Out-of-state applicants had the better odds at almost every campus.","p":"At UC Davis, 63.2 percent of out-of-state applicants were admitted. Only 37.2 percent of Californians were. At UC Irvine it was 47.4 percent against 21.9 percent. At UC Santa Barbara it was 54.8 percent against 32.1 percent. At UC San Diego it was 39.2 percent against 24.6 percent. UC Berkeley and UC Merced are the exceptions. At both of them, Californians did better."},{"h":"At Berkeley and UCLA the rate is low for everyone.","p":"UC Berkeley admitted 13.6 percent of Californians. It admitted 10.3 percent from out of state and 5.8 percent from abroad. UCLA admitted 9.6 percent of Californians. It admitted 11.2 percent from out of state and 6.3 percent from abroad. International applicants had the lowest rate at both campuses."},{"h":"The systemwide row is not another campus.","p":"Systemwide, 100,569 of 130,877 California-resident applicants were admitted. That is a 76.8 percent rate. That number counts each applicant once. It is a Californian's chance of getting in somewhere in the system, not at any one campus. The campus rows count the same student again at each campus. Only UC Merced at 96.3 percent and UC Riverside at 86.9 percent come near 76.8 percent for Californians."}],"license":"CC BY 4.0 \u2014 quote with attribution to Test Prep Gurus (High School Reach)","method":"The figures are the UC Information Center's Fall 2025 first-year admissions counts by campus and residency group. The population is first-year applicants, not transfers, and admits are not enrollees. The Systemwide row is applicant-deduplicated and the campus rows are not, so the two are different measures and the campus rows do not sum to the systemwide row. The rates are raw and hold nothing else constant, such as GPA or intended program. Rows are ordered by campus, then by residency group.","question":"Is it easier to get into a UC campus from out of state?","related":[{"label":"What GPA do you need for each UC campus?","url":"/research/uc-admit-rate-by-gpa"},{"label":"The hardest majors to get into at each UC campus","url":"/research/hardest-majors-uc"},{"label":"What colleges and majors pay","url":"/college-outcomes"}],"sections":[{"h2":"Why nonresidents often do better","paragraphs":["The pools are not the same. Almost every strong California senior applies to the UCs. Many apply to several campuses at once. A student in another state or country picks a shorter list on purpose. That pool is smaller and already sorted.","The campuses with the widest gap are not the two most selective ones. UC Davis admitted 8,332 of 13,185 out-of-state applicants. UC Berkeley admitted 3,117 of 30,172. The gap is widest where a campus has room. It also wants the higher nonresident tuition."]},{"h2":"What these rates are and are not","paragraphs":["These are raw admit rates. They do not hold GPA, course rigor or intended major constant. A higher nonresident rate does not mean a nonresident with the same record is favored. It also does not mean a Californian is passed over.","Admits are also not enrollees. Many admitted nonresidents never enroll. UC limits how many nonresidents it enrolls. A high nonresident admit rate can sit beside a small nonresident class."]},{"h2":"What a family should do with this","paragraphs":["If you live in California, read the campus rows. Leave the systemwide one alone. Your student's chance at UCLA is 9.6 percent, not 76.8 percent. The systemwide figure only says that most Californians who apply broadly get in somewhere.","If you are out of state or abroad, the gap is real. UC Davis is at 63.2 percent. UC Santa Barbara is at 54.8 percent. UC Irvine is at 47.4 percent. Those are easier targets than UC Berkeley at 10.3 percent or UCLA at 11.2 percent. Build the list from the rows for your own group.","Then check the price. Nonresident tuition is far higher than resident tuition. The UCs give little aid to nonresident families. Each campus's own net price calculator is the next stop."]}],"slug":"uc-admit-rate-by-residency-2025","sources":[{"label":"UC Information Center -- admissions data","url":"https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/about-us/information-center"}],"tables":[{"columns":[{"fmt":"str","key":"campus","label":"Campus"},{"fmt":"str","key":"residency","label":"Residency"},{"fmt":"int","key":"applicants","label":"Applicants"},{"fmt":"int","key":"admits","label":"Admits"},{"fmt":"pct1","key":"admit_rate","label":"Admit rate"}],"h2":"Fall 2025 UC first-year admit rate by campus and residency","intro":"Applicants, admits and the admit rate for each group. The Systemwide row is a different measure from the campus rows.","note":"Fall 2025 first-year applicants, as reported by the UC Information Center. Transfers are not included, and admits are not enrollees. The Systemwide row is applicant-deduplicated, so each applicant is counted once no matter how many campuses they applied to. The campus rows are not deduplicated: a student who applied to several campuses is counted at each of them. That is why the campus rows cannot be added up and do not sum to the systemwide row.","rows":[{"admit_rate":76.8,"admits":100569,"applicants":130877,"campus":"Systemwide","residency":"CA resident"},{"admit_rate":68.3,"admits":21923,"applicants":32087,"campus":"Systemwide","residency":"International"},{"admit_rate":61.7,"admits":26183,"applicants":42406,"campus":"Systemwide","residency":"Out-of-state"},{"admit_rate":13.6,"admits":9852,"applicants":72685,"campus":"UC Berkeley","residency":"CA resident"},{"admit_rate":5.8,"admits":1391,"applicants":23973,"campus":"UC Berkeley","residency":"International"},{"admit_rate":10.3,"admits":3117,"applicants":30172,"campus":"UC Berkeley","residency":"Out-of-state"},{"admit_rate":37.2,"admits":25641,"applicants":68954,"campus":"UC Davis","residency":"CA resident"},{"admit_rate":56.1,"admits":11700,"applicants":20844,"campus":"UC Davis","residency":"International"},{"admit_rate":63.2,"admits":8332,"applicants":13185,"campus":"UC Davis","residency":"Out-of-state"},{"admit_rate":21.9,"admits":18873,"applicants":86250,"campus":"UC Irvine","residency":"CA resident"},{"admit_rate":41.8,"admits":9021,"applicants":21587,"campus":"UC Irvine","residency":"International"},{"admit_rate":47.4,"admits":7764,"applicants":16386,"campus":"UC Irvine","residency":"Out-of-state"},{"admit_rate":96.3,"admits":41448,"applicants":43040,"campus":"UC Merced","residency":"CA resident"},{"admit_rate":80.0,"admits":3873,"applicants":4843,"campus":"UC Merced","residency":"International"},{"admit_rate":83.9,"admits":1244,"applicants":1483,"campus":"UC Merced","residency":"Out-of-state"},{"admit_rate":86.9,"admits":53276,"applicants":61331,"campus":"UC Riverside","residency":"CA resident"},{"admit_rate":82.1,"admits":5235,"applicants":6377,"campus":"UC Riverside","residency":"International"},{"admit_rate":88.8,"admits":2801,"applicants":3153,"campus":"UC Riverside","residency":"Out-of-state"},{"admit_rate":24.6,"admits":21542,"applicants":87574,"campus":"UC San Diego","residency":"CA resident"},{"admit_rate":29.5,"admits":7144,"applicants":24224,"campus":"UC San Diego","residency":"International"},{"admit_rate":39.2,"admits":9771,"applicants":24929,"campus":"UC San Diego","residency":"Out-of-state"},{"admit_rate":32.1,"admits":23972,"applicants":74659,"campus":"UC Santa Barbara","residency":"CA resident"},{"admit_rate":47.7,"admits":8885,"applicants":18644,"campus":"UC Santa Barbara","residency":"International"},{"admit_rate":54.8,"admits":9237,"applicants":16870,"campus":"UC Santa Barbara","residency":"Out-of-state"},{"admit_rate":71.0,"admits":37344,"applicants":52587,"campus":"UC Santa Cruz","residency":"CA resident"},{"admit_rate":71.9,"admits":4809,"applicants":6686,"campus":"UC Santa Cruz","residency":"International"},{"admit_rate":84.0,"admits":5968,"applicants":7102,"campus":"UC Santa Cruz","residency":"Out-of-state"},{"admit_rate":9.6,"admits":8589,"applicants":89349,"campus":"UCLA","residency":"CA resident"},{"admit_rate":6.3,"admits":1526,"applicants":24137,"campus":"UCLA","residency":"International"},{"admit_rate":11.2,"admits":3544,"applicants":31573,"campus":"UCLA","residency":"Out-of-state"}]}],"title":"UC Admit Rates for Californians, Out-of-State and International Applicants","updated":null,"url":"https://highschoolreach.com/research/uc-admit-rate-by-residency-2025"}