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# Alcorn State University Acceptance Rate & Admissions

Updated September 30, 2026

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## What is the acceptance rate at Alcorn State University?

Alcorn State University’s reported acceptance rate is 45.3%.

**Acceptance rate · Fall 2024**
45.3%

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

Alcorn State University admits 45.3% of applicants, a rate that sits well below the median of 85.9% for comparable institutions (same type and size).

## What SAT and ACT scores do Alcorn State University students report?

Alcorn State University's enrolled students who submitted test scores show a wide middle range. The SAT scores of the middle half of submitters run from 670 to 998.

The ACT range is 15 to 19. These ranges are not admission cutoffs.

They describe the twenty-fifth through seventy-fifth percentiles of recent enrolled students who chose to submit scores.

The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Alcorn State University. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.

SAT: approximate enrolled-student range

**Approximate lower endpoint**
670

**Approximate upper endpoint**
998

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.

ACT: enrolled-student score range

**25th percentile**
15

**75th percentile**
19

Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.

Figures cover fall 2024.

## Who enrolls at Alcorn State University?

**Pell Grant recipients**
69.8%

**Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group**
30.0%

**First-year retention**
76.6%

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.

Alcorn State University enrolls 2,363 undergraduates. An estimated 30.0% arrive as transfers or part-time students, so the entering class includes a large group of students continuing degrees begun elsewhere rather than starting fresh.

69.8% of all undergraduates receive Pell Grants, a share that points to wide financial access across the student body. The student body therefore mixes people starting their first degree with people who have already attended college.

Pell-eligible applicants can use the cost calculator to see their own estimated net price.

Of students who start full time and seek a bachelor's degree at Alcorn State University, 76.6% return for a second year. That figure runs above the peer median of 73.7% for comparable institutions (same type and size).

The [six-year graduation rate](/analysis/what-the-graduation-rate-doesnt-count/) is 57.4%, a level also higher than the peer median of 49.1% for comparable institutions (same type and size). Pell recipients in the same entering cohort finish at 31.7% within six years of entry.

That rate is 25.7 percentage points below the overall rate for the cohort as a whole.

## Data & methodology

Sources and reporting periods: [methodology](/methodology/).

Analysis and methodology by [Daniel Rogers](/about/#founder), 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.

Figure notes link to sources and limitations. [About College Azimuth](/about/).