Admissions & selectivity
Bethune-Cookman University Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Bethune-Cookman University?
Bethune-Cookman University’s reported acceptance rate is 88.2%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 88.2%
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: Bethune-Cookman University Common Data Set 2024-25, C1 · first-time, first-year students.
How to interpret the acceptance rate
Bethune-Cookman University admits 88.2% of applicants, above the median of 71.2% for comparable institutions (same type and size). The rate is above that peer midpoint, describing a less restrictive admissions outcome for the reported applicant pool.
In its 2024-25 Common Data Set, the university reported 10,994 first-year applicants, 9,701 admitted applicants, and 1,012 enrolled students.
What SAT and ACT scores do Bethune-Cookman University students report?
In its 2024-25 Common Data Set, the university reported a 3.25 average high-school GPA among enrolled first-year students, based on the 99.8% who reported a GPA. This is an average, not a cutoff.
For enrolled students who submitted SAT scores, the middle half scored from 830 to 990; 46% submitted SAT scores. Only 5% submitted ACT scores, so the SAT range describes a larger share of the entering class.
Applicants should treat the 830 to 990 range as context, not a cutoff. Among enrolled first-year students with a reported class rank, 2% finished in the highest tenth of their high-school class and 16% in the highest quarter.
These shares describe the subset of the entering class that reported a rank, not the whole class.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Bethune-Cookman University. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 830
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 990
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.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at Bethune-Cookman University?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 78.3%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 9.3%
- First-year retention
- 61.8%
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.
In its 2024-25 Common Data Set, Bethune-Cookman University reported 123 degree-seeking transfer applicants, 107 admitted, and 103 enrolled. Federal enrollment data show 2,732 undergraduates, with 78.3% receiving Pell Grants and an estimated 9.3% entering as transfers or part-time students.
That mix suggests a campus serving many grant recipients alongside students continuing coursework begun elsewhere, rather than one defined by a single route into college. Pell-eligible and transfer applicants should review the stated enrollment and transfer figures as context, not as a prediction of an individual admission decision.
For enrolled students, both the return after the first year and completion within six years trail the medians at comparable institutions. Bethune-Cookman University retains 61.8% of its full-time bachelor's-seeking first-year cohort, compared with a peer median of 83.4% for comparable institutions of the same control and size.
Its six-year graduation rate for the first-time full-time cohort is 30.5%, versus a peer median of 68.8%. Pell recipients in that cohort complete within six years at 33.5%, above the overall rate by 3.0 percentage points.
Enrolled students can expect these figures to describe cohort outcomes, not a personal timetable. The peer comparisons point downward, even as Pell completion sits above the overall first-time full-time cohort rate.
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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