unitid 104179 · Tucson, AZ · public 4-year · city (large)
University of Arizona
Public university in Tucson, Arizona, US
- founded
- 1885
- enrollment 2023
- 55,911
- predominant degree
- Bachelor's
- website
- arizona.edu
The University of Arizona is a public land-grant research university in Tucson, Arizona, United States. Founded in 1885 by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, it was the first university established in the Arizona Territory. The University of Arizona is one of three universities governed by the Arizona Board of Regents. As of fall 2025, the university enrolled 54,384 students in 22 separate colleges/schools, including the Eller College of Management, the Wyant College of Optical Sciences, the College of Medicine – Phoenix, the College of Medicine – Tucson, and the James E. Rogers College of Law. wikipedia rev 1360483562 ↗
scorecard 2026-06 · percentiles within public 4-years
The record
admission rate
86%
55th pctl among public 4-years
undergraduates
42,537
99th pctl among public 4-years
Pell share
26%
undergrads on Pell grants
30th pctl among public 4-years
completion
68%
finish within 150% time
86th pctl among public 4-years
sticker cost / yr
$29,423
86th pctl among public 4-years
avg net price / yr
$16,674
after aid, aided students
77th pctl among public 4-years
median earnings, 10 yr
$59,979
after entry, Title IV students
73rd pctl among public 4-years
median grad debt
$19,620
52nd pctl among public 4-years
what families actually pay
Cost
Sticker price is a fiction for most families — net price is what aided students pay after grants, by family income.
Average net price by family income, 2023–24 aid cohort
Families earning under $30k paid $13,353 per year after aid.
Dashed hollow marks are privacy-suppressed brackets — not zero. Band: middle half of public 4-years (all incomes).
Who enrolls, by family income
- 0-30k29%
- 30-48k17%
- 48-75k16%
- 75-110k13%
- 110k+26%
- Median family income
- $43,043
- First-generation students
- 31%
- In-state tuition & fees
- $13,926
earnings · debt · programs
Outcomes
Median earnings after entry, working grads with federal aid
Ten years out, the median graduate earns 3.1× the median graduate debt.
Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only.
What programs pay — top fields of study
| program | grads | earn 5 yr | debt |
|---|---|---|---|
| Psychology, General. | 488 | $51,974 | $20,374 |
| Physiology, Pathology and Related Sciences. | 274 | $65,726 | $19,500 |
| Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing. | 272 | $85,529 | $21,500 |
| Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies, General. | 260 | $53,789 | $25,000 |
| Communication and Media Studies. | 252 | $71,141 | $19,750 |
| Human Resources Management and Services. | 250 | $76,592 | $19,500 |
| Business Administration, Management and Operations. | 247 | $129,743 | — |
| Computer Science. | 223 | $115,435 | $23,000 |
| Business Administration, Management and Operations. | 218 | $71,600 | $24,112 |
| Finance and Financial Management Services. | 203 | $106,340 | $20,628 |
| Management Information Systems and Services. | 200 | $92,686 | $20,175 |
| Intelligence, Command Control and Information Operations. | 196 | — | — |
— is privacy suppression at small programs, never zero. Earnings are median, 5 years after completing.
annual scorecard files, 1996–2026
Trajectory
Line breaks are years where the measure wasn't collected — a gap is not a zero.
Admission rate
Price per year
- sticker
- net
Median earnings, 10 yrs after entry
Undergraduates
wikidata · 4,506 people recorded
Memory
Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
Field fingerprint — share of recorded alumni by field
Women among recorded alumni, by birth decade
People without a recorded gender are excluded; decades with fewer than 5 recorded alumni are dropped.
Wikipedia attention
monthly article views since 2015
most recorded occupationsresearcher (1,522) · basketball player (586) · university teacher (376) · politician (142) · writer (114) · American football player (113) · anthropologist (79) · baseball player (78)
Nobel laureates who studied here
- Brian Schmidt Physics 2011
The portrait wall
Sized by nothing, ordered by Wikipedia footprint (language editions).
Garry Shandling
85 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
Brian Schmidt
70 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
Bob Dole
60 wikis · Public domain
Kristen Wiig
59 wikis · CC BY-SA 2.0
Kourtney Kardashian
57 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
David Foster Wallace
56 wikis · CC BY 2.0
Michael Biehn
52 wikis · CC BY 3.0
Barry Goldwater
50 wikis · Public domain
Temple Grandin
49 wikis · GFDL 1.2
Greg Kinnear
49 wikis · CC BY-SA 2.0
Linda McCartney
46 wikis · CC BY-SA 4.0
Kate Walsh
46 wikis · Public domain
Barbara Kingsolver
45 wikis · CC BY 2.0
Jerry Bruckheimer
44 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
Andre Iguodala
42 wikis · CC BY-SA 2.0
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Provenance
- U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard, 2026-06 release. Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only. Suppressed values are null, never imputed.
- Annual Scorecard files 1996-2026. A null in early years usually means the measure was not yet collected, not zero.
- Coordinates and locale describe the campus address, not where students live.
- Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
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- Lead text from Wikipedia (revision 1360483562), CC BY-SA 4.0.