Admissions & selectivity
Capital University Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Capital University?
Capital University’s reported acceptance rate is 70.2%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 70.2%
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: Capital University Common Data Set 2025-26, C1 · first-time, first-year students.
How to interpret the acceptance rate
In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported 5,382 first-year applicants, 3,499 admitted applicants, and 467 enrolled students. Capital University has an admission rate of 70.2%, meaning admissions were offered to most applicants in the reported pool.
That rate is below the median of 75.7% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
What SAT and ACT scores do enrolled Capital University students report?
In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported that the middle half of enrolled first-year students who submitted SAT scores scored between 900 and 1120. Only 12% of the entering class submitted SAT scores, so the range describes a small slice of the cohort rather than the whole.
For the 37% who submitted ACT scores, the middle half ranged from 17 to 24. The median ACT score was 20.
Among enrolled students with a reported high-school class rank, 18% placed in the highest tenth and 44% in the highest quarter of their class. 64% of the entering class reported a rank, so these shares reflect that subset rather than the full cohort.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Capital University. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
12% of entering students submitted SAT scores
- 25th percentile
- 900
- Median
- 980
- 75th percentile
- 1120
CDS 2025-26 · enrolled first-year score submitters. This range is not an admission cutoff.
37% of entering students submitted ACT scores
- 25th percentile
- 17
- Median
- 20
- 75th percentile
- 24
CDS 2025-26 · enrolled first-year score submitters. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Source: Capital University Common Data Set 2025-26, C9 · Enrolled first-time, first-year score submitters.
Who enrolls at Capital University?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 33.9%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 19.4%
- First-year retention
- 75.5%
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.
Pell Grants reach 33.9% of undergraduates at Capital University, where undergraduate enrollment is 1,585. An estimated 19.4% arrive as transfers or part-time students, so the undergraduate mix includes both people using federal grant aid and people continuing coursework begun elsewhere.
These figures describe who attends rather than admission priorities or any applicant’s likelihood of admission. The presence of both groups suggests more than one common route into the undergraduate population.
First-year retention at Capital University is 75.5%, above the peer median of 74.2% for comparable institutions (same type and size). The six-year graduation rate is 60.3%, also above the peer median of 54.9%.
Pell recipients in the same first-time full-time cohort complete at 51.1%. That is 9.2 percentage points below the overall rate.
An enrolled student can expect a campus where most classmates return for a second year and a majority finish within six. The completion picture is less even for students who arrive with Pell Grants, and the gap is worth weighing alongside the university's access and mobility standing.
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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