Admissions & selectivity
Bemidji State University Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Bemidji State University?
Bemidji State University’s reported acceptance rate is 56.0%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 56.0%
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
Bemidji State University admitted 56.0% of applicants, below the median of 85.9% for comparable institutions (same type and size). The rate describes the share of applicants admitted for the reported entering class, rather than a forecast for an individual applicant.
The lower rate is a useful context point alongside the academic profile of enrolled score submitters.
What SAT and ACT scores do Bemidji State University students report?
The middle half of enrolled students who submitted ACT scores fell between 18 and 24. These are the 25th and 75th percentiles of recent score submitters, not admission cutoffs.
Applicants can compare their own scores with Bemidji State's 18 to 24 range. The figures describe enrolled students who chose to submit scores, not every admitted student.
The range offers a sense of the academic profile among recent entrants who provided test results, rather than a minimum threshold for admission.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Bemidji State University. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- 25th percentile
- 18
- 75th percentile
- 24
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at Bemidji State University?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 28.3%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 54.6%
- First-year retention
- 72.7%
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.
Transfer entry shapes the undergraduate mix at Bemidji State University, with an estimated 54.6% arriving after beginning college elsewhere. The university enrolls 3,139 undergraduates, and Pell Grant recipients account for 28.3% of undergraduates, a financial-access measure based on receipt of those grants.
The composition suggests that undergraduates may arrive through different college pathways or receive Pell Grants for financial support.
At Bemidji State University, both six-year completion and first-year continuation trail their comparable-institution benchmarks. For the first-time full-time cohort, the six-year graduation rate is 47.9%, below the peer median of 49.1%.
First-year retention, the share returning for a second year, is 72.7%, below the peer median of 73.7%. Pell recipients in that cohort have a six-year completion rate of 44.7%, below the overall rate by 3.2 percentage points.
Enrolled students can expect retention and completion measures below the comparable-institution medians, with Pell recipients completing at a lower rate than the overall cohort.
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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