Admissions & selectivity
Bethel University (IN) Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Bethel University (IN)?
Bethel University (IN)’s reported acceptance rate is 97.7%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 97.7%
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
Bethel University admitted 97.7% of applicants in the reported entering class, a rate above the median of 75.7% for comparable institutions (same type and size). That comparison places the university’s reported admission outcome well above the typical rate for its institutional peers, without predicting an individual decision.
The rate summarizes the reported applicant pool rather than setting anyone’s personal odds.
What SAT and ACT scores do Bethel University (IN) students report?
Bethel University’s submitted-score ranges show a wide span among enrolled students who provided scores, rather than thresholds for admission. The middle half of SAT submitters scored from 900 to 1,150, covering the twenty-fifth through seventy-fifth percentiles.
For ACT submitters, the corresponding range ran from 16 to 24. These figures describe enrolled students who submitted scores, not all enrolled students, and they do not set minimums for admission.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Bethel University (IN). Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 900
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1150
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
- 16
- 75th percentile
- 24
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at Bethel University (IN)?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 33.5%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 21.4%
- First-year retention
- 72.4%
Retention source: College Scorecard; full-time first-year retention.
About these student measures
These measures use different populations and reporting periods, rather than one current entering class. The entering-student group includes part-time entrants as well as other attendance patterns.
Bethel University enrolls 1,008 undergraduates, with more than one route into its undergraduate population. Pell Grants go to 33.5% of undergraduates, placing federal grant aid within the enrollment picture.
The estimated share of entrants outside the first-time, full-time group is 21.4%, so students continuing work begun elsewhere also form part of the campus. Pell-eligible applicants should use the cost calculator to estimate grant-adjusted price, and transfer applicants should review transfer information for their intended field.
The figures portray a school serving both grant recipients and transfer entrants, rather than a single entry path.
Completion and return rates at Bethel University both sit modestly below those of comparable institutions. For the first-time full-time cohort, the six-year graduation rate is 53.2%, compared with a peer median of 54.9% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
Among full-time bachelor’s-seeking first-year entrants, 72.4% return for a second year; the comparable-institution median is 74.2%. Pell recipients in the first-time full-time cohort have a six-year completion rate of 48.4%, below the overall rate by 4.8 percentage points.
Enrolled students can expect these measures to describe prior cohorts rather than predict an individual path. The peer comparisons and Pell completion figure both point to lower completion rates.
Data & methodology
A missing figure does not mean zero. 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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