Admissions & selectivity
Carthage College Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Carthage College?
Carthage College’s reported acceptance rate is 87.1%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 87.1%
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
Carthage College admitted 87.1% of applicants, so the published rate describes an admissions outcome that is more open than its comparable-school benchmark. That rate is higher than the median of 71.2% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
What SAT and ACT scores do Carthage College students report?
ACT scores at Carthage College vary among enrolled students. The middle half of submitters scored between 20 and 25.
That range captures the twenty-fifth through seventy-fifth percentiles of recent enrolled students who sent scores. It is a description of where those students landed, not a minimum for admission.
Not every enrolled student submits scores, so the range does not represent the entire class. Applicants can compare their own ACT results against the college's 20 to 25 band to see where they would fall among enrolled students who chose to submit scores.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Carthage College. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- 25th percentile
- 20
- 75th percentile
- 25
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at Carthage College?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 27.1%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 11.7%
- First-year retention
- 73.4%
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.
Carthage College enrolls a modest undergraduate population that includes both Pell Grant recipients and people arriving after beginning college elsewhere. Of its 2,660 undergraduates, 27.1% receive Pell Grants, a federal grant-aid measure, and an estimated 11.7% entered as transfers or part-time students.
That mix suggests more than one route into the college, rather than an undergraduate body defined solely by first-time entrants.
At Carthage College, the available completion record is below the level posted by comparable institutions. The first-time full-time cohort has a six-year graduation rate of 64.3%, below the peer median, the middle value for comparable institutions (same type and size), of 68.8%.
Pell recipients in that cohort complete within six years at 56.3%, below the overall rate by 8.0 percentage points. Early persistence is also lower: 73.4% of full-time bachelor’s-seeking first-year entrants return, compared with 83.4% at comparable institutions.
Enrolled students can expect retention and completion figures that sit below those peer reference points.
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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