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# Augusta University Acceptance Rate & Admissions

Updated October 1, 2026

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## What is the acceptance rate at Augusta University?

Augusta University’s reported acceptance rate is 86.4%.

**Acceptance rate · Fall 2024**
86.4%

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

Augusta University admits 86.4% of applicants, right at the median of 85.9% for comparable institutions (same type and size).

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

For enrolled students who submitted SAT scores, the middle half scored between 970 and 1,140. The corresponding ACT range is 18 to 25.

These are the twenty-fifth and seventy-fifth percentiles of recent score submitters, not admission cutoffs. An applicant can place their own results alongside Augusta University's 970 to 1,140 SAT range.

They can also compare with the 18 to 25 ACT range. The ranges describe the enrolled students who chose to submit scores, not the full entering class.

The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Augusta 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**
970

**Approximate upper endpoint**
1140

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**
18

**75th percentile**
25

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

Figures cover fall 2024.

## Who enrolls at Augusta University?

**Pell Grant recipients**
38.8%

**Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group**
30.9%

**First-year retention**
75.6%

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.

Augusta University enrolls 5,613 undergraduates. Pell Grant recipients account for 38.8% of the student body, and an estimated 30.9% arrive as transfers or part-time students.

Those two entry routes mean the campus draws from students who start here and from those continuing work begun elsewhere. Neither path defines the institution alone.

Of full-time bachelor's-seeking entrants, 75.6% return for a second year, against a peer median of 73.7% for comparable institutions. The [six-year graduation rate](/analysis/what-the-graduation-rate-doesnt-count/) is 48.8%, just below the peer median of 49.1%.

Pell recipients in the same cohort complete at 49.0%, 0.2 percentage points above the overall rate. Enrolled students can expect persistence and completion that track the peer medians, with Pell recipients finishing at essentially the same rate as the entering 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/).