Applicants, Acceptance Rate, Yield Trends at UMBC

At University of Maryland-Baltimore County, the average acceptance rate over the past 11 years is 65.75%, and 2024's acceptance rate is 74.00%. For 2024 admission, it was slightly harder to get into University of Maryland-Baltimore County than the previous year.

The average yield (enrollment rate) over the period is 24.25%, and the 2024 yield is 20.00%.

The number of UMBC applicants increased by 14.01% (1,616 applicants) compared to the previous year.

Acceptance Rate Changes

The average acceptance rate over the last 10 years is 65.75%, and this year's acceptance rate is 74.00% at University of Maryland-Baltimore County. By gender, men students' acceptance rate is 67.80% and women students' rate is 63.86%. For 2024 admission, it was slightly harder to get into University of Maryland-Baltimore County than the previous year.

The following table and chart illustrate the acceptance rates changes at University of Maryland-Baltimore County over the past 11 years (2013-2024).

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Year	Total	Men	Women
	2013-14	63.15%	66.37%	60.11%
2014-15	59.61% -3.54%	62.01% -4.36%	57.27% -2.84%
2015-16	59.42% -0.18%	62.48% 0.47%	56.60% -0.67%
2016-17	56.83% -2.60%	60.80% -1.69%	53.06% -3.54%
2017-18	60.21% 3.38%	62.50% 1.70%	58.16% 5.10%
2018-19	57.94% -2.27%	61.61% -0.89%	54.64% -3.52%
2019-20	61.03% 3.09%	64.34% 2.73%	58.09% 3.45%
2020-21	69.48% 8.45%	71.77% 7.42%	67.44% 9.35%
2021-22	81.00% 11.51%	80.00% 8.23%	81.99% 14.55%
2022-23	80.55% -0.44%	79.95% -0.04%	81.13% -0.86%
2023-24	74.00% -6.55%	74.01% -5.95%	73.99% -7.13%
Average	65.75%	67.80%	63.86%

Admission Yield (Enrollment Rate) Changes

The average admission yield of the last 11 years is 24.25% where the current academic year yield is 20.00%.

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in yield at University of Maryland-Baltimore County from 2013 to 2024.

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Year	Total	Men	Women
2013-14	26.90%	30.33%	23.33%
2014-15	26.75% -0.15%	29.71% -0.63%	23.63% 0.31%
2015-16	24.68% -2.07%	28.91% -0.80%	20.38% -3.25%
2016-17	25.03% 0.35%	29.08% 0.18%	20.63% 0.24%
2017-18	26.28% 1.24%	30.29% 1.20%	22.42% 1.79%
2018-19	26.42% 0.15%	30.69% 0.41%	22.11% -0.31%
2019-20	23.54% -2.88%	27.39% -3.31%	19.75% -2.35%
2020-21	21.04% -2.50%	25.21% -2.18%	17.07% -2.69%
2021-22	23.01% 1.97%	27.00% 1.79%	19.00% 1.93%
2022-23	23.08% 0.07%	26.18% -0.82%	20.15% 1.15%
2023-24	20.00% -3.08%	24.01% -2.17%	16.99% -3.15%
Average	24.25%	28.07%	20.50%

Applicants, Admitted, and Enrolled Headcount Changes

Over the past 10 years, The average number of applicants is 11,219, the average number of admitted is 7,404, and the average number of first-year enrolled students is 1,771.

The number of UMBC applicants increased by 14.01% (1,616 applicants) compared to the previous year.

The following table and chart show the changes of applicants, admitted, and enrolled headcount at University of Maryland-Baltimore County from 2013 to 2024.

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Year	Applicants	Admitted	Enrolled
2013-14	9,755	6,160	1,657
2014-15	10,217 4.74%	6,090 -1.14%	1,629 -1.69%
2015-16	10,629 4.03%	6,316 3.71%	1,559 -4.30%
2016-17	10,812 1.72%	6,144 -2.72%	1,538 -1.35%
2017-18	11,201 3.60%	6,744 9.77%	1,772 15.21%
2018-19	11,720 4.63%	6,790 0.68%	1,794 1.24%
2019-20	11,842 1.04%	7,227 6.44%	1,701 -5.18%
2020-21	11,459 -3.23%	7,962 10.17%	1,675 -1.53%
2021-22	11,093 -3.19%	8,985 12.85%	2,067 23.40%
2022-23	11,534 3.98%	9,291 3.41%	2,144 3.73%
2023-24	13,150 14.01%	9,731 4.74%	1,946 -9.24%
Average	11,219	7,404	1,771

Compare Acceptance Rate Change to Similar Colleges

The following table compares acceptance rate changes from last year between University of Maryland-Baltimore County and similar schools.