Admissions & selectivity
Carroll University Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Carroll University?
Carroll University’s reported acceptance rate is 66.8%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 66.8%
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
With an admission rate of 66.8%, Carroll University admitted about two-thirds of applicants in the reported entering-class cycle. The reported figure is lower than the median of 71.2% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
Applicants should build an application list with schools spanning a range of published admission rates and academic profiles. This rate summarizes a past applicant pool rather than forecasting an individual admission decision.
What SAT and ACT scores do Carroll University students report?
Carroll University’s submitted-score ranges give applicants context for recent enrollees, rather than admission minimums. Applicants should compare their results with the university’s SAT range of 1,040 through 1,270 and ACT range of 21 through 27.
These ranges describe enrolled students who submitted scores, not every student in the entering class. For each test, the middle half of submitted scores falls between the lower and upper boundaries shown, covering the twenty-fifth through seventy-fifth percentiles.
They are useful reference points for understanding the score profile of recent submitters, but they do not set a required score.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Carroll University. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 1040
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1270
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
- 21
- 75th percentile
- 27
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at Carroll University?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 22.9%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 11.7%
- First-year retention
- 78.2%
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 Carroll University, undergraduate enrollment includes Pell Grant recipients and an estimated transfer component, pointing to more than one route into the campus population. The university enrolls 2,523 undergraduates.
Pell Grant recipients account for 22.9% of that group, a financial-access measure, while an estimated 11.7% of undergraduates arrive as transfers or part-time students. These measures describe who is enrolled, not how the university makes admission decisions or any applicant’s likelihood of admission.
The enrollment mix includes both federal grant-aid recipients and people continuing coursework begun elsewhere.
Completion is the stronger part of the student-success picture at Carroll University, even as first-year return rates sit below the comparison point. Pell recipients in the first-time full-time cohort have a six-year completion rate of 57.3%, below the overall six-year graduation rate of 70.7% by 13.4 percentage points.
That overall rate is above the peer median of 68.8% for comparable institutions (same type and size). For full-time bachelor’s-seeking first-year students, retention is 78.2%, compared with a peer median of 83.4% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
Enrolled students can expect completion to compare more favorably with peers than first-year retention does.
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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