This spring marked the second year that first-year students could apply to the McIntire School of Commerce under its new three-year program structure, and the first year in which first-year students were the only applicants eligible to apply for admission. Last year, both first- and second-year students were eligible to apply to McIntire into three-year and two-year programs, respectively, in separate admission cycles.
According to Brooke Braun, executive director of marketing and communications for McIntire, the school received 876 applications this cycle, the exact same number of applications that were received by first-year students applying in the 2025 cycle. The acceptance rate for the 2026 cycle was 43.5 percent, with 381 students receiving acceptance offers. Of the 381 students who received offers, 372 students accepted their offer, making the matriculation rate 97.6 percent.
The admission rate for the 2026 McIntire admission cycle saw a decline when compared with last year’s admission rate for first-years applying into the three-year McIntire program — which had an admission rate of 44 percent. Additionally, 876 applications received in the 2026 cycle means that about 22 percent of the Class of 2029 applied to McIntire…