Admissions & selectivity
Benedictine University Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Benedictine University?
Benedictine University’s reported acceptance rate is 95.2%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 95.2%
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.
Source: Benedictine University Common Data Set 2024-25, C1 · first-time, first-year students.
How to interpret the acceptance rate
The admission rate at Benedictine University was 95.2%, meaning most applicants in the reported pool were admitted. It sits above the median of 75.7% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
In its 2024-25 Common Data Set, the university reported 3,041 applicants, 2,896 admitted, and 451 enrolled in a recent first-year cycle.
What SAT and ACT scores do enrolled Benedictine University students report?
In its 2024-25 Common Data Set, Benedictine University reported that 5% of its entering class submitted SAT scores. The middle half of those SAT submitters scored from 913 to 1273.
Among the 2% who submitted ACT scores, the middle half scored from 25 to 31. Far more of the entering class submitted SAT scores than ACT scores, so the SAT range describes more of the class.
Most entering students submitted neither test, so both ranges describe a minority of the class.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Benedictine University. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
5% of entering students submitted SAT scores
- 25th percentile
- 913
- Median
- 1065
- 75th percentile
- 1273
CDS 2024-25 · enrolled first-year score submitters. This range is not an admission cutoff.
2% of entering students submitted ACT scores
- 25th percentile
- 25
- Median
- 26
- 75th percentile
- 31
CDS 2024-25 · enrolled first-year score submitters. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Source: Benedictine University Common Data Set 2024-25, C9 · Enrolled first-time, first-year score submitters.
Who enrolls at Benedictine University?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 39.5%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 41.0%
- First-year retention
- 66.0%
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.
At Benedictine University, undergraduates arrive through both direct and transfer paths, with federal grant aid also part of the enrollment picture. Undergraduate enrollment is 1,942; 39.5% receive Pell Grants, and an estimated 41.0% entered as transfers or part-time students.
This composition shows a notable transfer route alongside students using federal grant aid, without indicating an admission preference. In its 2024-25 Common Data Set, the university reported 3,041 first-year applicants, 2,896 admitted, and 451 enrolled.
At Benedictine University, the available persistence measures point to lower retention and completion than at comparable institutions. The first-time full-time cohort’s six-year graduation rate is 50.3%, below the peer median of 54.9% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
First-year retention is 66.0% for full-time bachelor’s-seeking first-year students, below its peer median of 74.2%. For Pell recipients in the first-time full-time cohort, six-year completion is 48.6%, below the overall rate by 1.7 percentage points.
Enrolled students can expect these figures to describe prior cohorts rather than a guarantee of an individual outcome. The peer comparisons and Pell completion measure point in the same direction.
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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