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# California State Polytechnic University-Pomona Acceptance Rate & Admissions

Updated October 1, 2026

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## What is the acceptance rate at Cal Poly Pomona?

Cal Poly Pomona’s reported acceptance rate is 75.2%.

**Acceptance rate · Fall 2024**
75.2%

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.

First-year applicants and admitted students · CDS 2025-26

**Applicants**
48,258

**Admitted**
35,688

Source: California State Polytechnic University-Pomona Common Data Set 2025-26, C1 · first-time, first-year students.

How to interpret the acceptance rate

California State Polytechnic University-Pomona admits 75.2% of applicants, compared with the median of 78.1% for comparable institutions (same type and size). In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported 48,258 applicants, 35,688 admitted students, and 4,004 enrolled first-year students.

## What SAT and ACT scores do Cal Poly Pomona students report?

SAT and ACT ranges are not available for Cal Poly Pomona in the data shown here. Missing scores do not establish whether tests are required, optional or excluded from review.

Figures cover fall 2024.

## Who enrolls at Cal Poly Pomona?

**Pell Grant recipients**
46.3%

**Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group**
38.3%

**First-year retention**
87.4%

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.

California State Polytechnic University-Pomona enrolls 25,042 undergraduates, and nearly half of them receive Pell Grants. An estimated 38.3% of entrants arrive as transfers or part-time students, so a large part of the student body did not start at Cal Poly Pomona.

In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported 48,258 first-year applicants, 35,688 admitted, and 4,004 enrolled. For transfer students, 12,677 applied, 9,053 were admitted, and 2,448 enrolled.

The composition is a public campus that draws heavily from Pell-eligible students and from people continuing coursework begun elsewhere.

Of full-time bachelor's-seeking students who start at Cal Poly Pomona, 87.4% return for a second year, and 68.4% finish within six years. Both figures run above the peer medians of 83.1% and 65.0% for comparable institutions.

In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported a retention rate of 89% for the first-time, full-time fall 2024 entering class. Pell recipients in the first-time full-time cohort complete at 71.6%, which is 3.2 percentage points above the overall six-year rate.

Enrolled students can expect persistence and completion that outpace the peer medians, and Pell students finish at a rate that exceeds the cohort as a whole.

## Data & methodology

Sources and reporting periods: [methodology](/methodology/).

Analysis and methodology by [Daniel Rogers](/about/#founder), 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.

Figure notes link to sources and limitations. [About College Azimuth](/about/).