unitid 230764 · Salt Lake City, UT · public 4-year · city (midsize)
University of Utah
Public university in Salt Lake City, Utah, US
- founded
- 1850
- enrollment 2023
- 40,455
- predominant degree
- Bachelor's
- website
- utah.edu
The University of Utah is a public research university in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. It was established in 1850 as the University of Deseret by the General Assembly of the provisional State of Deseret, making it Utah's oldest institution of higher education. The university received its current name in 1892, four years before Utah attained statehood, and moved to its current location in 1900. It is the flagship university of the Utah System of Higher Education. wikipedia rev 1364335648 ↗
scorecard 2026-06 · percentiles within public 4-years
The record
admission rate
86%
54th pctl among public 4-years
undergraduates
27,264
93rd pctl among public 4-years
Pell share
20%
undergrads on Pell grants
15th pctl among public 4-years
completion
65%
finish within 150% time
84th pctl among public 4-years
sticker cost / yr
$25,557
68th pctl among public 4-years
avg net price / yr
$16,200
after aid, aided students
73rd pctl among public 4-years
median earnings, 10 yr
$67,170
after entry, Title IV students
87th pctl among public 4-years
median grad debt
$19,000
44th 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 $13,123 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
- 0-30k24%
- 30-48k17%
- 48-75k18%
- 75-110k17%
- 110k+24%
- Median family income
- $38,625
- First-generation students
- 29%
- In-state tuition & fees
- $9,620
earnings · debt · programs
Outcomes
Median earnings after entry, working grads with federal aid
Ten years out, the median graduate earns 3.5× 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Research and Experimental Psychology. | 442 | — | $21,314 |
| Business Administration, Management and Operations. | 356 | $135,170 | — |
| Social Work. | 273 | $66,379 | — |
| Communication and Media Studies. | 256 | $58,546 | $18,017 |
| Biology, General. | 234 | $66,286 | $21,000 |
| Computer Science. | 226 | $116,395 | $19,947 |
| Economics. | 221 | $80,323 | $16,642 |
| Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing. | 210 | $71,368 | $22,106 |
| Finance and Financial Management Services. | 207 | $96,414 | $18,850 |
| Physiology, Pathology and Related Sciences. | 206 | — | — |
| Business Administration, Management and Operations. | 176 | $83,910 | $21,500 |
| Information Science/Studies. | 173 | $115,541 | — |
— 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 · 3,709 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 (1,046) · basketball player (584) · university teacher (290) · politician (210) · American football player (121) · writer (112) · lawyer (107) · mathematician (61)
The portrait wall
Sized by nothing, ordered by Wikipedia footprint (language editions).
Ted Bundy
81 wikis · Public domain
Orson Scott Card
57 wikis · CC BY 3.0
Stephen Covey
57 wikis · Public domain
Alan Kay
50 wikis · CC BY 2.0
Nolan Bushnell
42 wikis · CC BY-SA 2.0
Karl Rove
39 wikis · Public domain
Andrew Bogut
38 wikis · CC BY-SA 4.0
Matthew Davis
38 wikis · CC BY 2.0
Jon Meade Huntsman Jr.
35 wikis · Public domain
Edwin Catmull
32 wikis · CC BY 2.0
Thomas S. Monson
32 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
Jake Garn
29 wikis · Public domain
John Warnock
29 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
George W. Romney
27 wikis · Public domain
Also recorded: Wallace Stegner.
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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 1364335648), CC BY-SA 4.0.