Admissions & selectivity
Alabama A & M University Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Alabama A & M University?
Alabama A & M University’s reported acceptance rate is 58.0%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 58.0%
Source: College Scorecard · Fall 2024 admissions. Acceptance rates can change from year to year; this figure does not predict the current or next admission cycle.
How to interpret the acceptance rate
Alabama A & M University admits 58.0% of applicants, well below the median of 85.9% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
What SAT and ACT scores do Alabama A & M University students report?
The middle half of enrolled students who submitted SAT scores fell between 810 and 1,040. For those who submitted ACT scores, the range was 14 to 19.
These figures describe recent enrolled submitters, not every enrolled student or a minimum for admission. An applicant can place their own score against the university's 810 to 1,040 SAT range and 14 to 19 ACT range as one point of context, not as a threshold.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Alabama A & M University. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 810
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1040
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff. The endpoints add section percentiles; they are not verified composite-score percentiles. A separate SAT-equivalent average is not plotted as a median. Source: College Scorecard; sum of section 25th/75th percentiles; enrolled score-submitters.
- 25th percentile
- 14
- 75th percentile
- 19
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at Alabama A & M University?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 63.0%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 11.6%
- First-year retention
- 69.9%
Retention source: College Scorecard; full-time first-year retention.
About these student measures
The entering-student group includes part-time entrants as well as other attendance patterns.
Alabama A & M University is a public university in Normal, Alabama, enrolling 6,124 undergraduates. 63.0% of them receive Pell Grants, and an estimated 11.6% arrive as transfers or part-time students.
The campus draws heavily from students who use federal grant aid, alongside a smaller group continuing work begun at other institutions. The admission rate is 58.0%, well below the median of 85.9% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
For full-time bachelor's-seeking entrants, the first-year retention rate is 69.9%, and the six-year graduation rate is 24.0%. Both sit below the peer medians of 73.7% and 49.1% for comparable institutions.
Pell recipients in the same entering cohort complete at 30.3%, which is 6.3 percentage points above the overall rate.
Data & methodology
Sources and reporting periods: methodology.
Analysis and methodology by Daniel Rogers, founder of College Azimuth.
Explanatory text is AI-assisted drafting checked against those figures; it is not an additional data source.
Admission rates describe past applicants, not an individual’s chance of admission; confirm requirements and deadlines with the institution.
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