Admissions & selectivity
Azusa Pacific University Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Azusa Pacific University?
Azusa Pacific University’s reported acceptance rate is 88.4%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 88.4%
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
Azusa Pacific University admits 88.4% of applicants, a rate that sits well above the median of 71.2% for comparable institutions (same type and size). The figure describes broad access rather than narrow selectivity.
What SAT and ACT scores do Azusa Pacific University students report?
Azusa Pacific University enrolls students across a wide academic range. Among those who submitted SAT scores, the middle half scored between 983 and 1,238; the middle half of ACT submitters scored between 25 and 30.
These ranges describe the enrolled class, not a set of minimum requirements. Applicants can use those figures as a benchmark for the scores of recent students who chose to submit them.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Azusa Pacific University. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 983
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1238
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
- 25
- 75th percentile
- 30
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at Azusa Pacific University?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 35.1%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 23.7%
- First-year retention
- 84.0%
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.
Azusa Pacific University enrolls 2,759 undergraduates. 35.1% of them receive Pell Grants, and an estimated 23.7% arrive as transfers or part-time students.
The student body is drawn from multiple entry points, with a significant share of students using federal grant aid and nearly a quarter continuing coursework begun elsewhere.
At Azusa Pacific University, 84.0% of first-year students return for a second year, just above the 83.4% median for comparable institutions. The six-year graduation rate for the first-time full-time cohort is 61.8%, which sits below the peer median of 68.8%.
Pell recipients in that cohort complete at 57.5%, 4.3 percentage points below the overall rate. An enrolled student can expect a campus where most first-years return, but where the path to a degree is not equally smooth for everyone. The figures describe the entering class as a whole, not any one student's odds.
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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