By Glyn Caddell, BSME · Author of Digital SAT Math Secrets · Tutoring since 2008 — Updated October 26, 2026
One Wyoming university offers ABET-accredited engineering degrees, the University of Wyoming in Laramie, and this page sets out what it costs, what it offers and the test scores of the students it admits, which it does not report.
A New York student pays $24,178 in tuition and fees, is admitted at 97%, and the one published job a test score has there is to move his scholarship level.
Because there is one school, this page is built differently from the other forty-nine: a profile of the university, a section on what the score does, and a section on why the state has one engineering school and not two.
Table of Contents
- The University of Wyoming at a Glance
- What Does a Test Score Do at the University of Wyoming?
- Why Does Wyoming Have One Engineering School?
- What If You Want a Range to Read?
The University of Wyoming at a Glance
The University of Wyoming is the only university in Wyoming that holds an ABET-accredited bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline, and because it reports no score range, this section sets out what the Scorecard does carry for it and what the university publishes on its own.
| College | SAT Reading & Writing | SAT Math | ACT composite | Cost of attendance | Undergraduates | Admit rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Wyoming | Does not report SAT data | Does not report SAT data | Does not report ACT data | $24,818 | 7,944 | 97% |
The University of Wyoming reports no SAT or ACT range to the Scorecard, so no middle 50% is given. On the other pages in this series the range covers the middle half of admitted students who submitted the test, and a blank is not a low range. It is a university that has told the Scorecard nothing about scores.
Three things about that table are worth pausing on.
The University of Wyoming is the only accredited engineering school in the state, and it reports no score range, so the score has no published role in admission and one published role in price. The next section is about that role.
A non-resident pays $24,178 in tuition and fees, $16,410 more than a Wyoming resident, and the resident figure of $7,768 is below the resident figure at every neighboring state’s flagship engineering school: Montana State $8,460, Idaho $9,084, South Dakota State $9,299, Utah $9,620, Nebraska $10,434 and Colorado Boulder $15,666.
Wyoming’s seven community colleges enroll between 482 and 2,799 students each and award no bachelor’s degree, and no private college in the state awards an engineering degree, so every accredited engineering seat in Wyoming is in Laramie.
A student can see in the image above where every accredited engineering seat in Wyoming is.
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What Engineering Degrees Does the University of Wyoming Offer?
The University of Wyoming’s College of Engineering and Physical Sciences holds ABET accreditation in architectural, chemical, civil, computer, electrical, energy systems, mechanical and petroleum engineering [VERIFY the list on abet.org], and the petroleum and energy systems degrees sit in a state whose economy runs on coal, oil, gas and wind.
The college is housed in part in the Engineering Education and Research Building, built under the state’s Tier-1 Engineering Initiative, a Legislature-funded program begun in 2012 to raise the college’s standing [VERIFY the dates and the appropriation on uwyo.edu or in Wyoming press]. The degrees are the ordinary ones a flagship engineering college holds, and the two energy degrees are the ones the state’s employers hire from.
What Does the University of Wyoming Cost?
The University of Wyoming charges $7,768 in tuition and fees to a Wyoming resident and $24,178 to a non-resident, and its cost of attendance in the Scorecard, $24,818, is a resident’s.
A non-resident’s cost of attendance comes to approximately $41,200 once the higher tuition is substituted. The non-resident figure of $24,178 is below the non-resident figure at four of the six neighboring flagships, Idaho $28,320, Nebraska $28,584, Utah $30,860 and Montana State $33,287, and above South Dakota State’s $12,809 and South Dakota Mines’ $14,900 on our page on engineering colleges in South Dakota. What a New York student pays after the university’s scholarship levels is the next section.
Who Gets In?
The University of Wyoming admits 97% of applicants and reports no SAT or ACT range to the Scorecard, so there is no middle 50% to be inside or outside.
The university is test-optional for admission [VERIFY on uwyo.edu/admissions], and the state gives the ACT to every junior [VERIFY with the Wyoming Department of Education], so a Wyoming applicant arrives with a score the university does not require and a New York applicant decides whether to send one. The reason to send it is in the next section.
One row and no range say who got in. One grid says what the score does, and the next section is about it.
What Does a Test Score Do at the University of Wyoming?
A test score does nothing the Scorecard can see at the University of Wyoming and one thing the financial aid office publishes: it can raise a non-resident’s scholarship level.
The scholarship is the Brown & Gold Commitment, the university’s merit award for first-year students from outside Wyoming. As summarized by College Ready Parent from the university’s pages on October 7, 2026, the award has four annual levels, $12,000, $8,000, $5,000 and $3,000, renewable for eight semesters on a 3.0 college GPA and 24 credits a year, and every applicant is first placed on a test-optional level by high school GPA, after which “students who send ACT or SAT scores are then checked for a higher level” [VERIFY the four levels, the GPA and score cutoffs for each, and the test-optional-first rule on uwyo.edu/sfa, which blocked automated reading for this page. If the grid cannot be confirmed, replace the figures with a sentence that the university publishes a non-resident merit grid with test-optional and test-submitted levels and link to it].
The arithmetic follows from the levels. A non-resident pays $24,178. At the $3,000 level he pays $21,178, at $5,000 he pays $19,178, at $8,000 he pays $16,178, and at $12,000 he pays $12,178. That last figure is $4,410 more than a Wyoming resident pays and $631 less than South Dakota State charges a non-resident with no award at all. The score cannot get him in, because 97% get in, and it cannot put him in a range, because there is none. It can move him down that ladder.
Two other non-resident rates exist and neither reaches New York. The Western Undergraduate Exchange gives first-year students from the fourteen WUE states and the Pacific territories tuition at 150 percent of the resident rate, with a minimum GPA and a minimum test score [VERIFY both on uwyo.edu/sfa], and a Good Neighbor award adds $2,000 a year for two years to students from Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, South Dakota and Utah with a 3.0 and an ACT of 21 or SAT of 1060 [VERIFY]. A New Yorker is in neither group and reads the Brown & Gold ladder alone.
| Level | Award | A New York student’s tuition and fees |
|---|---|---|
| No award | $0 | $24,178 |
| Brown & Gold, fourth level | $3,000 | $21,178 |
| Brown & Gold, third level | $5,000 | $19,178 |
| Brown & Gold, second level | $8,000 | $16,178 |
| Brown & Gold, first level | $12,000 | $12,178 |
| Wyoming resident, no award | $7,768 |
[In-article image 2, 2760 x 1440] A ladder of five non-resident prices, $24,178 with no award, then $21,178, $19,178, $16,178 and $12,178 at the four Brown & Gold levels, each tagged with its award and “test-optional level first, higher level on a submitted score,” beside a single resident bar at $7,768. Alt text: University of Wyoming non-resident tuition at each Brown & Gold Commitment level beside resident tuition File name: wyoming-engineering-brown-gold
The image above shows what a New York student pays at each scholarship level and what a Wyoming resident pays.
Take a New York student with a 1300 on the SAT and a 3.5 GPA. At the University of Wyoming there is no range to be inside or outside, he is admitted at 97% if his application is complete, and he is placed on a Brown & Gold level by his GPA and then checked for a higher one because he sent the 1300 [VERIFY which level a 3.5 and a 1300 reach on the published grid]. At the top level he pays $12,178. At Colorado School of Mines, on our page on engineering colleges in Colorado, the same student is inside or near a range of 670 to 750 on Math and pays $45,824. At Montana State, on our page on engineering colleges in Montana, he is above the range and pays $33,287. At South Dakota Mines he is inside the range and pays $14,900 with no scholarship needed. The score does different work at each of the four, and at Wyoming its work is the price.
The honest version is that most of the policy in this section came through a third-party summary, because the university’s own scholarship and admissions pages blocked the reading this page is built on, and every figure from that summary is bracketed until a person reads uwyo.edu by hand. No range means no range, and 97% admitted means 97% admitted. Laramie sits at 7,200 feet, two thousand miles from New York, on a campus of 7,944 undergraduates in a town of 32,000. And the page does not pretend that one school is a choice. It says what the one school contains.
Families from outside the Mountain West frequently ask whether the score is worth sending at all.
The image above shows what a New York student pays at each scholarship level and what a Wyoming resident pays.
Take a New York student with a 1300 on the SAT and a 3.5 GPA. At the University of Wyoming there is no range to be inside or outside, he is admitted at 97% if his application is complete, and he is placed on a Brown & Gold level by his GPA and then checked for a higher one because he sent the 1300 [VERIFY which level a 3.5 and a 1300 reach on the published grid]. At the top level he pays $12,178. At Colorado School of Mines, on our page on engineering colleges in Colorado, the same student is inside or near a range of 670 to 750 on Math and pays $45,824. At Montana State, on our page on engineering colleges in Montana, he is above the range and pays $33,287. At South Dakota Mines he is inside the range and pays $14,900 with no scholarship needed. The score does different work at each of the four, and at Wyoming its work is the price.
The honest version is that most of the policy in this section came through a third-party summary, because the university’s own scholarship and admissions pages blocked the reading this page is built on, and every figure from that summary is bracketed until a person reads uwyo.edu by hand. No range means no range, and 97% admitted means 97% admitted. Laramie sits at 7,200 feet, two thousand miles from New York, on a campus of 7,944 undergraduates in a town of 32,000. And the page does not pretend that one school is a choice. It says what the one school contains.
Families from outside the Mountain West frequently ask whether the score is worth sending at all.
Does the University of Wyoming Require the SAT or ACT?
The University of Wyoming does not require the SAT or ACT for admission [VERIFY the test-optional policy on uwyo.edu/admissions], and it reports no range to the Scorecard.
A score has two published uses there. It can raise a non-resident’s Brown & Gold level, and it can place a student into a math course, where the university uses the ALEKS placement assessment and a test-score table for students who have one [VERIFY the table’s calculus line]. A New York student with a good score should send it for both.
The score’s work is the price. The reason there is one school is the next section.
Why Does Wyoming Have One Engineering School?
Wyoming has one engineering school because it has one public university, about 585,000 people [VERIFY the Census figure], seven community colleges that award no bachelor’s degree, and no private four-year college with an engineering program.
The state’s constitution and statutes establish one university, in Laramie, and the seven community colleges, in Casper, Riverton, Torrington, Cheyenne, Powell, Sheridan and Rock Springs, enroll between 482 and 2,799 students each. Several carry pre-engineering tracks that transfer into the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences [VERIFY which, and the transfer agreement]. No private college in Wyoming awards a bachelor’s degree in engineering. The Tier-1 Engineering Initiative, the Legislature’s program to raise the college’s standing from 2012 [VERIFY], was a decision to build the one school up rather than to build a second.
Accreditation matters for a reason that is easy to miss at seventeen. Licensure as a professional engineer normally requires a degree from an ABET-accredited engineering program, and in Wyoming every such degree is awarded in Laramie. On our page on engineering colleges in Nebraska, the other single-flagship page in this series, the one school reports a range and publishes five admission criteria. Wyoming’s reports nothing and admits 97%, and the structure is the same.
Nothing on this page ranks anything. There is one accredited program, and the choice is whether it fits, on cost, discipline and distance.
What If You Want a Range to Read?
In Wyoming one school holds every accredited engineering degree, it reports no range, and a New York student’s price runs from $24,178 to $12,178 depending on a scholarship level that a test score can raise. There is no gap to a floor or a ceiling. There is a gap between levels.
A student who wants a range to measure himself against should read the neighboring pages, where Montana State, Colorado Boulder, Utah, Nebraska and South Dakota Mines all publish one. A student who wants Wyoming should read the Brown & Gold grid and find the level his GPA puts him on and the score that moves him up one.
The first step is finding out where the score actually is, section by section. A free diagnostic SAT gives a score that can be set against the grid, once it is read, and against the ranges on the neighboring pages.
The Math section rewards the same handful of topics on every test date, and a student who knows which of them he is missing can close a gap of 50 to 100 points in weeks rather than months. The method is on our page on improving your SAT Math score, and at Wyoming the same topics decide the math placement that starts the engineering sequence.
How to Read a Blank
Every other page in this series carries ranges that cover the middle 50% of admitted students who submitted that test, and a blank on this page means the university reported no such figure to the Scorecard.
A blank is not a low range. It is the absence of one, and a student should not fill it in from what he imagines about a university that admits 97%. The university has published a grid instead, and the grid is where the score goes.
Because most colleges are now test-optional, the ranges that are published elsewhere describe only the students who chose to submit at all. More on what SAT score you need for college and on test-optional colleges.
Should You Take the ACT Instead?
Wyoming gives the ACT to every public school junior as the state test [VERIFY with the Wyoming Department of Education], and the University of Wyoming reports neither test to the Scorecard.
The scholarship grid takes either test, and a New York student who holds an SAT should send it rather than take the ACT for Wyoming’s sake. The two uses of the score here, the grid and math placement, read either one.
Engineering Programs in Nearby States
Wyoming borders Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Colorado, Utah and Idaho, and every one of the six has more than one accredited engineering school.
See engineering colleges in Colorado, engineering colleges in South Dakota, and engineering colleges in Montana.
Engineering Colleges in Other States
We publish the same breakdown for engineering programs in every state.
See engineering colleges by state for the full list.
Glyn Caddell
Glyn Caddell holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from NJIT and has been tutoring New York City students since 2008. He founded Caddell Prep in 2012 and is the author of Digital SAT Math Secrets: Lessons & Tricks to Quickly Improve to a Perfect 800 on the Math Test, which contains over 900 practice problems and is used in Caddell Prep’s SAT math classes. He is founding president of the Staten Island Technical High School alumni association and teaches every lesson on this site personally.
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