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# Ashland University Acceptance Rate & Admissions

Updated October 1, 2026

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## What is the acceptance rate at Ashland University?

Ashland University’s reported acceptance rate is 76.4%.

**Acceptance rate · Fall 2024**
76.4%

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

For applicants, Ashland University’s admission rate of 76.4% is above the median of 71.2% for comparable institutions (same type and size). The rate records the share of applicants admitted in the reported entering-class cycle, rather than an individual applicant’s likelihood of admission.

Its higher admission outcome differs from that peer comparison without showing how individual files are evaluated.

## What SAT and ACT scores do Ashland University students report?

At Ashland University, submitted test scores provide a useful picture of the academic ranges among recent enrolled score submitters, not admission minimums. Applicants should compare their SAT results with the university’s 1,035 through 1,208 range.

They should compare ACT results with its 20 through 25 range. The SAT range marks the middle 50% of scores from enrolled students who submitted SAT results, spanning the 25th through 75th percentiles.

The ACT range describes the same middle portion among enrolled ACT submitters. Since these figures cover only students who submitted scores, they do not represent every enrolled student or establish a required score.

The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Ashland 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**
1035

**Approximate upper endpoint**
1208

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**
20

**75th percentile**
25

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

Figures cover fall 2024.

## Who enrolls at Ashland University?

**Pell Grant recipients**
28.8%

**Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group**
27.8%

**First-year retention**
76.5%

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.

Ashland University serves an undergraduate body with both federal grant recipients and people arriving after prior college coursework. 28.8% of undergraduates receive Pell Grants, a financial-access measure, and the estimated share of entrants outside the first-time, full-time group is 27.8%.

Federal enrollment data list 2,199 undergraduates at this private nonprofit university in Ashland, Ohio. The figures point to more than one route into the undergraduate population: Pell Grant recipients are part of the campus, alongside an estimated share continuing work begun elsewhere.

These enrollment measures describe the people attending Ashland University, not admission priorities or any applicant's odds.

At Ashland University, the published progress record points to fewer returning and completing students than at comparable institutions. Among full-time bachelor’s-seeking first-year entrants, 76.5% return for the next year, compared with a peer median of 83.4%.

For the first-time full-time cohort, the [six-year graduation rate](/analysis/what-the-graduation-rate-doesnt-count/) is 60.6%, versus 68.8% at comparable institutions; both measures are below their peer reference points. Pell recipients in the first-time full-time cohort complete within six years at 59.2%, below the overall rate by 1.4 percentage points.

Enrolled students can expect these published rates to describe cohort patterns rather than an individual forecast. The overall measures and Pell completion point in the same direction: progress rates sit below the relevant comparison figures.

## 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/).