Public · Community college
University of Puerto Rico-Utuado
Utuado, Puerto Rico · Fringe rural
- 9%
- Transfer rate
- $13,648
- Avg net price
- 23%
- Grad / completion
- $23,906
- Median earnings
University of Puerto Rico-Utuado is a public associate-granting institution in Utuado, Puerto Rico (fringe rural setting), enrolling 325 undergraduates. It is a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI).
About Utuado, Puerto Rico
Utuado is a town and municipality of Puerto Rico located in the central mountainous region of the island known as the Cordillera Central. At the time of the Spanish initial occupation of the island on November 19, 1493, by Christopher Columbus, Puerto Rico was inhabited by the Taíno. The Montañeses de Utuado (Utuado Mountaineers) are a semi-professional baseball team based in Utuado that competes in the Puerto Rico Amateur Baseball Federation's Liga Doble A. The team achieved its first national championship in 1941 under the then Federación Deportiva del Norte (Sports Federation of the North) as the Utuado Stars. (Wikipedia)
- Setting
- Fringe rural
- Highest degree offered
- Bachelor's
- Nearest big city
- 43 miles to San Juan, PR
- To the ocean
- 16 miles
How University of Puerto Rico-Utuado compares
More selective than 73% · #6 most selective of 16 in Puerto Rico
Higher than 6% · #65 of 69 in Puerto Rico
Higher than 8%
Higher than 14% · #23 of 68 in Puerto Rico
Cheaper than 56% · #66 cheapest of 70 in Puerto Rico
Lower than 99%
Lower than 86%
Larger than 55%
Percentiles compare University of Puerto Rico-Utuado with the nation's 3,519 two-year and certificate schools, among schools reporting each statistic. State ranks count two-year and certificate schools in Puerto Rico.
Student body
Undergraduates by gender
- Women16651%
- Men15949%
Undergraduates by race / ethnicity
- White0.6%
- Black0.9%
- Hispanic80%
- Asian0.9%
- Other or multiracial17%
Graduate gender splits aren't published in this data, so the gender chart covers undergraduates only.
By the numbers
- Undergraduate enrollment
- 325
- Student–faculty ratio
- 9 : 1
- Pell Grant recipients
- 84%
- First-generation students
- 27%
- Students over 25
- 15%
- Median family income
- $13,787
- Avg faculty salary (academic year)
- $71,154
Colleges don't publish true class-size data; student–faculty ratio (IPEDS) is the closest public measure of it.
Where students come from
Home state of the 100 first-year students who entered in fall 2023.
- From Puerto Rico100%
Most first-years stay in state — University of Puerto Rico-Utuado draws overwhelmingly from Puerto Rico.
Out-of-state students usually pay a higher tuition rate at public schools — check the cost card above for your bracket. Source: IPEDS residence & migration, fall 2023 entering class.
Cost
- In-state tuition
- $5,354
- Room & board
- —
- Books & supplies
- $4,168
- Total cost of attendance
- $20,908
- Average net price
- $13,648
Net price is the total cost minus grants and scholarships — what students actually pay. It varies sharply by family income; see the breakdown below.
Admissions
- Admission rate
- 64.1%
- Test scores
- Not considered
- SAT range (25th–75th %)
- —
- SAT average
- —
- SAT reading
- —
- SAT math
- —
- ACT composite
- —
Outcomes
- Graduated (within 6 years)
- 23%
- Graduated on time (4 years)
- 22%
- First-year retention
- 46%
- Transferred to another college
- 9%
- Median earnings, 6 years after entry
- $21,063
- Median earnings, 10 years after entry
- $23,906
- Median debt at graduation
- $3,500
- Students with federal loans
- 7%
- Paying down their loans (1 year in)
- 33%
Graduating on time
By student background (4 years)
When these bars run close together, students from every background tend to finish at similar rates — a sign the school supports the ~30% who are first-gen or low-income.
Campus life & athletics
- On-campus housing
- No
- Application fee
- $30
- Athletics
- Other
- Varsity athletes
- 67 (49 men · 18 women)
Housing and fees: IPEDS 2023–24. Athletics rosters: Equity in Athletics data, 2024–25. Dorm capacity can include graduate and family housing, so the share of undergrads can top 100%.
Varsity sports (7)
Athlete counts per sport, Equity in Athletics data, 2024–25.
Campus safety
- Safety grade
- B
- Reported offenses per 1,000 students
- 1.0 / year
- Violent offenses (2022–2024)
- 1
- Property offenses (2022–2024)
- 0
On-campus criminal offenses reported under the Clery Act, 2022–2024, across 1 campus (334 students). Counts reflect reports, not convictions — schools with strong reporting cultures often show more, so a higher count doesn't simply mean a more dangerous campus.
Reported offenses in an average year
The same 2022–2024 Clery Act reports, divided down to one year.
By offense type, per year
Averages, not a forecast — a single year can run well above or below this. Bars are scaled against this campus's most-reported offense, so they compare types here rather than against other schools.
What you'll actually pay, by family income
Average net price (total cost minus grants and scholarships) paid by aided students in each family-income band.
College Scorecard / IPEDS, most recent year. Family income is total household income; net price covers tuition, fees, room, board and supplies after grant aid, for students receiving federal aid.
Four-year (or more) true cost
Net price for your family's income, projected across the time it actually takes students here to graduate.
$14,709/year × about 4.1 years — most students here don't finish in exactly four, and each extra term adds cost. A planning estimate from net-price and graduation-timing data, not a bill.
Does the school pay you to attend?
Grant aid from the school's own funds — the discount off sticker, on top of any federal or state help.
Modest institutional aid: 21% of freshmen get a grant from the school, averaging $2,161. Most of what lowers the price here is federal or state money, not the school's own funds.
Blends need-based and merit aid — IPEDS doesn't split the two, so a high number can mean generous merit scholarships, deep need-based aid, or both. Figures cover 80 full-time first-year undergraduates, 2022–23. Source: IPEDS Student Financial Aid.
Is it worth it?
A rough return-on-investment read from what graduates earn versus what they borrow.
- Median earnings (10 years)
- $23,906
- Typical debt at graduation
- $3,500
- Debt vs. one year's pay
- 15%
- Out-earn a HS grad
- —
Typical debt would take roughly 1.5 years to repay at about a tenth of median earnings.
Graduates here tend to earn well relative to what they borrow — typical debt pays back fast, and most out-earn a high-school graduate.
Earnings are the College Scorecard median for former students (working, not enrolled) 10 years after entry — not a guarantee, and they vary a lot by major. Debt is the median federal loan balance at graduation.
The pay gap here
Median earnings 10 years after entry, split by gender.
Men out-earn women by $6,949 (34%) a decade out.
Federal figures for former students working and not enrolled, 10 years after they first entered. A gap this wide usually reflects which majors men and women here tend to choose — not different pay for the same job.
Campus climate
- Summer high
- 91°F
- Winter low
- 64°F
- Annual rain
- 78.2″
Average temperature
HighLowAverage precipitation (inches)
NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals, Dos Bocas, PR RQ station (6.7 mi from campus).
What University of Puerto Rico-Utuado graduates study — and earn
Median earnings of this school's own graduates 1 and 5 years after finishing each program, and median federal-loan debt at completion (College Scorecard). Small programs are privacy-suppressed (—). Click a major to compare colleges nationally.
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Schools with a comparable profile — size, selectivity, cost, and graduate outcomes. Compare University of Puerto Rico-Utuado side by side →
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Source: US Department of Education College Scorecard (most recent cohorts), IPEDS institutional characteristics, Equity in Athletics (EADA) data, Clery Act Campus Safety and Security data, and NOAA US Climate Normals. Distances are straight-line from campus coordinates. Percentiles compare schools of the same level (four-year vs. two-year) that report each statistic.











