University

University of Delaware

Newark, Delaware, United States

Verified · last verified 2026-09-02

University details

Institution type: Public
Campus setting: Suburban
Application platforms: Not available
Testing policy: Not available
In-state tuition: $16,810
Out-of-state tuition: $41,400
Cost of attendance: Not available (2024–2025)
Undergraduate enrollment: 19,071

Website

Common Data Set

Institution-reported facts by reporting cycle. Missing and withheld values are shown explicitly.

2024–2025 · most recent available

First-year admission rate

70.6%

Calculated from applications and admissions reported in CDS C1. This is a factual calculation, not a CollegePath rating.

First-year admission

High-school GPA distribution · GPA 4.0 (C11): Not reported by institution
High-school GPA distribution · GPA 3.75-3.99 (C11): Not reported by institution
High-school GPA distribution · GPA 3.50-3.74 (C11): Not reported by institution
High-school GPA distribution · GPA 3.25-3.49 (C11): Not reported by institution

Majors

Accounting and Related Services
Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services
Agricultural Business and Management
Agriculture, Agriculture Operations, and Related Sciences
Agriculture, General
Agriculture, Agriculture Operations, and Related Sciences
Agriculture/Veterinary Preparatory Programs
Agriculture, Agriculture Operations, and Related Sciences
Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions
Health Professions and Related Programs
Animal Sciences
Agriculture, Agriculture Operations, and Related Sciences
Anthropology
Social Sciences
Apparel and Textiles
Family and Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences

Deadlines

Early action · 2026–2027
2026-11-01 — First-year deadline listed in the Common App 2026–2027 Requirements Grid, updated 2026-08-14.
https://content.commonapp.org/Files/ReqGrid.pdf
Regular decision · 2026–2027
2027-01-15 — First-year deadline listed in the Common App 2026–2027 Requirements Grid, updated 2026-08-14.
https://content.commonapp.org/Files/ReqGrid.pdf

Supplemental essays

No supplemental essays are required for this university.

Application requirements

2026–2027

Application fee · Required
Value: $75
First-year U.S. application fee listed in the Common App 2026–2027 Requirements Grid, updated 2026-08-28.
https://content.commonapp.org/Files/ReqGrid.pdf
Fee waiver · Optional
Value: Accepted
Common App fee-waiver availability listed in the 2026–2027 Requirements Grid, updated 2026-08-28.
https://content.commonapp.org/Files/ReqGrid.pdf
Personal essay · Required
The Common App personal essay is marked required in the Common App 2026–2027 Requirements Grid, updated 2026-08-28.
https://content.commonapp.org/Files/ReqGrid.pdf
Supplemental essays · Not required

Sources

Direct sources supporting this university’s facts, with retrieval dates.

Secondary source · supports requirements:2026–2027
https://content.commonapp.org/Files/ReqGrid.pdf
Retrieved 2026-09-02 — Common App member-reported first-year fee, waiver, and personal-essay fields; grid updated 2026-08-28.
Official source · supports requirements:2026–2027:supplemental_essays
https://apply.udel.edu/register/delawaresupplement
Retrieved 2026-09-02 — Delaware supplement form states that test-optional applicants must complete supplemental essays.
Official source · supports requirements:2026–2027:supplemental_essays
https://www.udel.edu/apply/
Retrieved 2026-09-02 — No required supplemental essay was located; the reviewed 2026–2027 materials do not establish a required supplement.
Common App 2026–2027 Requirements Grid · supports deadlines:2026–2027

High-school GPA distribution · GPA 3.00-3.24 (C11)

Not reported by institution

High-school GPA distribution · GPA 2.50-2.99 (C11)

Not reported by institution

High-school GPA distribution · GPA 2.00-2.49 (C11)

Not reported by institution

High-school GPA distribution · GPA 1.00-1.99 (C11)

Not reported by institution

High-school GPA distribution · GPA below 1.0 (C11)

Not reported by institution

Average high-school GPA (C12)

Not reported by institution

First-year applications (C1)

39,995 applicants

IPEDS 2024 provisional statistic discovered via CollegeData.FYI; verify against the institution CDS

First-year students admitted (C1)

28,238 students

IPEDS 2024 provisional statistic discovered via CollegeData.FYI; verify against the institution CDS

First-year students enrolled (C1)

4,424 students

IPEDS 2024 provisional statistic discovered via CollegeData.FYI; verify against the institution CDS

Academics and class size

Student-to-faculty ratio (I2): Not reported by institution

Enrollment

Undergraduate enrollment (B1): 20,026 students; IPEDS 2024 provisional statistic discovered via CollegeData.FYI; verify against the institution CDS
Full-time undergraduate enrollment (B1): 18,377 students; IPEDS 2024 provisional statistic discovered via CollegeData.FYI; verify against the institution CDS
Part-time undergraduate enrollment (B1): 1,649 students; IPEDS 2024 provisional statistic discovered via CollegeData.FYI; verify against the institution CDS

Testing

Enrolled students submitting scores · SAT (C9): 19%; IPEDS 2024 provisional statistic discovered via CollegeData.FYI; verify against the institution CDS
Enrolled students submitting scores · ACT (C9): 3%; IPEDS 2024 provisional statistic discovered via CollegeData.FYI; verify against the institution CDS
SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing · 25th percentile (C9): 600 score; IPEDS 2024 provisional statistic discovered via CollegeData.FYI; verify against the institution CDS
SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing · 75th percentile (C9): 690 score; IPEDS 2024 provisional statistic discovered via CollegeData.FYI; verify against the institution CDS
SAT Math · 25th percentile (C9): 590 score; IPEDS 2024 provisional statistic discovered via CollegeData.FYI; verify against the institution CDS
SAT Math · 75th percentile (C9): 680 score; IPEDS 2024 provisional statistic discovered via CollegeData.FYI; verify against the institution CDS
ACT Composite · 25th percentile (C9): 28 score; IPEDS 2024 provisional statistic discovered via CollegeData.FYI; verify against the institution CDS
ACT Composite · 75th percentile (C9): 32 score; IPEDS 2024 provisional statistic discovered via CollegeData.FYI; verify against the institution CDS

Source: University of Delaware Common Data Set 2024-2025 (institutional data not reported) · Retrieved 2026-09-02

Open the official institutional source

Document ID: url:https://www.udel.edu/ · Import: cds-2026-09-v85

2024–2025 · earlier reporting cycle

First-year admission rate

69.2%

Calculated from applications and admissions reported in CDS C1. This is a factual calculation, not a CollegePath rating.

Enrollment

Undergraduate enrollment (B1): 19,287 students; Total undergraduate students reported in the Fall 2024 B1 enrollment table.
Full-time undergraduate enrollment (B1): 17,682 students; Sum of the reported full-time undergraduate gender totals in B1.
Part-time undergraduate enrollment (B1): 1,605 students; Sum of the reported part-time undergraduate gender totals in B1.

First-year admission

First-year applications (C1): 39,742 applicants
First-year students admitted (C1): 27,517 students
First-year students enrolled (C1): 4,075 students
High-school GPA distribution · GPA 4.0 (C11): 51%; All enrolled students column; official percentages are rounded and may not total exactly 100 percent.
High-school GPA distribution · GPA 3.75-3.99 (C11): 22%; All enrolled students column; official percentages are rounded.
High-school GPA distribution · GPA 3.50-3.74 (C11): 20%; All enrolled students column; official percentages are rounded.
High-school GPA distribution · GPA 3.25-3.49 (C11): 8%; All enrolled students column; official percentages are rounded.
High-school GPA distribution · GPA 3.00-3.24 (C11): 2%; All enrolled students column; official percentages are rounded.
High-school GPA distribution · GPA 2.50-2.99 (C11): 0%; The official CDS reports 0.00 percent in the all-enrolled column.
High-school GPA distribution · GPA 2.00-2.49 (C11): 0%; The official CDS reports 0.00 percent in the all-enrolled column.
High-school GPA distribution · GPA 1.00-1.99 (C11): 0%; The official CDS reports 0.00 percent in the all-enrolled column.
High-school GPA distribution · GPA below 1.0 (C11): 0%; The official CDS reports 0.00 percent in the all-enrolled column.
Average high-school GPA (C12): 3.98 GPA; Average GPA reported for all degree-seeking first-year students who submitted GPA.

Testing

Enrolled students submitting scores · SAT (C9): 19.1%; The official CDS reports 19.10 percent of enrolled first-year students submitted SAT scores.
Enrolled students submitting scores · ACT (C9): 2.8%; The official CDS reports 2.80 percent of enrolled first-year students submitted ACT scores.
SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing · 25th percentile (C9): 610 score
SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing · 75th percentile (C9): 700 score
SAT Math · 25th percentile (C9): 590 score
SAT Math · 75th percentile (C9): 690 score
ACT Composite · 25th percentile (C9): 28 score
ACT Composite · 75th percentile (C9): 32 score

Academics and class size

Student-to-faculty ratio (I2): 16:1; The official CDS reports a Fall 2024 ratio of 16 to 1, based on Newark campus undergraduate students and faculty.

Source: University of Delaware Common Data Set 2024-2025 · Retrieved 2026-09-02

Open the official institutional source

Document ID: url:https://bpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/sites.udel.edu/dist/e/2019/files/2025/07/CDS2425_UDelaware.pdf · Import: cds-2026-09-v117-delaware

Applied Horticulture and Horticultural Business Services

Agriculture, Agriculture Operations, and Related Sciences

Applied Mathematics

Mathematics and Statistics

Area Studies

Area, Ethnic, Cultural, Gender, and Group Studies

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Physical Sciences

Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology

Physical Sciences

Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology

Biological and Biomedical Sciences

Biology, General

Biological and Biomedical Sciences

Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology

Biological and Biomedical Sciences

Biomedical/Medical Engineering

Engineering

Biotechnology

Biological and Biomedical Sciences

Business Administration, Management and Operations

Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services

Chemical Engineering

Engineering

Chemistry

Physical Sciences

Civil Engineering

Engineering

Classics and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics

Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics

Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science/Research and Allied Professions

Health Professions and Related Programs

Cognitive Science

Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies

Communication and Media Studies

Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs

Computer and Information Sciences, General

Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services

Computer Engineering

Engineering

Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management

Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services

Construction Engineering

Engineering

Criminology

Social Sciences

Data Analytics

Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies

Design and Applied Arts

Visual and Performing Arts

Dietetics and Clinical Nutrition Services

Health Professions and Related Programs

East Asian Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics

Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics

Ecology, Evolution, Systematics, and Population Biology

Biological and Biomedical Sciences

Economics

Social Sciences

Educational Administration and Supervision

Education

Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering

Engineering

English Language and Literature, General

English Language and Literature/Letters

Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations

Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services

Environmental/Environmental Health Engineering

Engineering

Environmental/Natural Resources Management and Policy

Natural Resources and Conservation

Ethnic, Cultural Minority, Gender, and Group Studies

Area, Ethnic, Cultural, Gender, and Group Studies

Finance and Financial Management Services

Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services

Fine and Studio Arts

Visual and Performing Arts

Food Science and Technology

Agriculture, Agriculture Operations, and Related Sciences

Foods, Nutrition, and Related Services

Family and Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences

Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, Other

Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics

Geography and Cartography

Social Sciences

Geography and Environmental Studies

Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies

Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences

Physical Sciences

Germanic Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics

Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics

Health Professions and Related Clinical Sciences, Other

Health Professions and Related Programs

Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences, General

Health Professions and Related Programs

Historic Preservation and Conservation

Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies

Hospitality Administration/Management

Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services

Human Resources Management and Services

Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services

Human Services, General

Public Administration and Social Service Professions

International Business

Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services

International Relations and National Security Studies

Social Sciences

International/Globalization Studies

Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies

Landscape Architecture

Architecture and Related Services

Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities

Linguistic, Comparative, and Related Language Studies and Services

Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics

Management Information Systems and Services

Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services

Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods

Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services

Marketing

Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services

Materials Sciences

Physical Sciences

Mathematics

Mathematics and Statistics

Mechanical Engineering

Engineering

Music

Visual and Performing Arts

Natural Resources Conservation and Research

Natural Resources and Conservation

Neurobiology and Neurosciences

Biological and Biomedical Sciences

Nutrition Sciences

Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies

Philosophy

Philosophy and Religious Studies

Physics

Physical Sciences

Physiology, Pathology and Related Sciences

Biological and Biomedical Sciences

Plant Sciences

Agriculture, Agriculture Operations, and Related Sciences

Political Science and Government

Social Sciences

Public Health

Health Professions and Related Programs

Public Policy Analysis

Public Administration and Social Service Professions

Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing

Health Professions and Related Programs

Research and Experimental Psychology

Psychology

Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics

Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics

Slavic, Baltic and Albanian Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics

Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics

Sociology

Social Sciences

Specialized Sales, Merchandising and Marketing Operations

Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services

Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness

Parks, Recreation, Leisure, and Fitness Studies

Statistics

Mathematics and Statistics

Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods

Education

Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas

Education

Wildlife and Wildlands Science and Management

Natural Resources and Conservation

Zoology/Animal Biology

Biological and Biomedical Sciences

No supplemental essays are required for this university.

Retrieved 2026-08-20 — Common App member-reported first-year deadlines; grid updated 2026-08-14.

Official source

https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?130943

Retrieved 2026-06-10