Colleges in Texas
Solyo has full profiles for 17 colleges in Texas: 9 public, 8 private nonprofit. The median family here pays $19,857 a year after grant aid, $1,708 below the national median. Half of these schools admit more than 63% of applicants. They sit across 14 cities, concentrated in Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio.
What Texas costs
Published in-state tuition at the median Texas public university is $11,688 a year before aid. Residency is worth the most at University of Texas at Austin, where an out-of-state family pays $33,220 more for the same degree.
After grants and scholarships the range runs from $10,836 at University of Texas at San Antonio to $41,104 at Baylor University. That spread is the reason a sticker price is a poor way to build a list in Texas.
Why net price beats sticker price, and what an average one does and does not tell a particular family.
How selective Texas schools are
Rice University admits 8% of applicants and Texas State University admits 89%. A list drawn only from the selective end of that range has no likely school in it, which is the most common mistake in a first draft.
The highest average SAT reported in Texas is 1553 at Rice University.
Every Texas college profile
Ordered by selectivity, most selective first.
- Rice UniversityHouston, Texas · Private nonprofit8% acceptance · $13,370 net price · 1553 avg SAT
- Trinity UniversitySan Antonio, Texas · Private nonprofit26% acceptance · $23,464 net price · 1416 avg SAT
- University of Texas at AustinAustin, Texas · Public27% acceptance · $19,857 net price · 1395 avg SAT
- Southwestern UniversityGeorgetown, Texas · Private nonprofit43% acceptance · $29,224 net price · 1241 avg SAT
- Texas Christian UniversityFort Worth, Texas · Private nonprofit44% acceptance · $36,660 net price · 1298 avg SAT
- Austin CollegeSherman, Texas · Private nonprofit48% acceptance · $21,107 net price · 1212 avg SAT
- Baylor UniversityWaco, Texas · Private nonprofit51% acceptance · $41,104 net price · 1329 avg SAT
- Texas A&M University-College StationCollege Station, Texas · Public57% acceptance · $21,315 net price · 1280 avg SAT
- Southern Methodist UniversityDallas, Texas · Private nonprofit63% acceptance · $40,892 net price · 1428 avg SAT
- University of Texas at DallasRichardson, Texas · Public65% acceptance · $18,267 net price · 1286 avg SAT
- Texas Wesleyan UniversityFort Worth, Texas · Private nonprofit69% acceptance · $24,066 net price · 1070 avg SAT
- University of North TexasDenton, Texas · Public72% acceptance · $15,649 net price · 1109 avg SAT
- Texas Tech UniversityLubbock, Texas · Public73% acceptance · $19,070 net price · 1190 avg SAT
- University of HoustonHouston, Texas · Public74% acceptance · $14,276 net price · 1250 avg SAT
- University of Texas at ArlingtonArlington, Texas · Public80% acceptance · $13,951 net price · 1124 avg SAT
- University of Texas at San AntonioSan Antonio, Texas · Public87% acceptance · $10,836 net price · 1105 avg SAT
- Texas State UniversitySan Marcos, Texas · Public89% acceptance · $16,805 net price · 1103 avg SAT
Other South states
On median net price Texas is the 13th most affordable of the 17 South states in this directory, and the 14th most accessible on median acceptance rate. In-state pricing makes the neighbouring states worth checking too.
- Florida (12)
- Georgia (12)
- Virginia (12)
- North Carolina (11)
- Maryland (8)
- Tennessee (8)
- South Carolina (7)
- Alabama (7)
- Kentucky (5)
- Louisiana (3)
- Oklahoma (3)
- District of Columbia (2)
- Mississippi (2)
- Delaware (1)
- West Virginia (1)
- Arkansas (1)
Where to go next
- College search filter Texas and every other state by major, cost and selectivity
- How to read these numbers what each figure on a profile measures
- All 9 HBCUs in Texas admission rates, net price and graduate earnings
- Scholarship directory awards with published odds, filterable by state
- All 50 states and Washington D.C.