College statistics
- Address:
- 225 S University Avenue
Saint George, UT
84770 - Sector Group:
- Public 4-Year or Above
- Official Website:
- utahtech.edu/
- Setting:
- City
- Annual In-State Tuition:
- $5,434
- Annual Out-of-State Tuition:
- $17,374
- Room and Board:
- $8,648
- Endowment (End of Year):
- $342,705,855
- Research Activity Tier:
- No research designation
- Economic Mobility Index:
- Higher Access, Medium Earnings
- Primary Undergraduate Major:
- Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities
Utah Tech is a public university in Saint George, a mid-sized city in southwestern Utah. The school has a straightforward mission: offer accessible higher education with a practical bent. It's not a research powerhouse or an elite liberal arts college—it's a regional public university designed to serve students who want a degree without the prestige-school price tag or the pretense.
The university enrolls 12,567 students. In-state tuition runs $6,074 per year, and out-of-state students pay $17,644. Add room and board at $9,308, and your total cost comes to $23,664 for Utah residents or $35,234 for out-of-state students. That's genuinely affordable compared to most four-year universities, especially if you're from Utah.
The six-year graduation rate is 34.2 percent, which is low and worth taking seriously. That number suggests the school serves a lot of students who are working while studying, starting college underprepared, or juggling competing priorities—all common in regional public universities. Utah Tech is best suited for students who know what they want to study (especially in technical or applied fields), who need to keep costs down, and who can manage their own momentum. It's not the place to go if you're still figuring out your direction or if you need heavy institutional hand-holding to finish.