Admissions & selectivity
Citadel Military College of South Carolina Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Citadel Military College of South Carolina?
Citadel Military College of South Carolina’s reported acceptance rate is 22.7%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 22.7%
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: Citadel Military College of South Carolina Common Data Set 2025-26, C1 · first-time, first-year students.
How to interpret the acceptance rate
Citadel Military College of South Carolina admits 22.7% of applicants, a rate well below the median of 85.9% for comparable institutions (same type and size). In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported 2,989 first-year applicants and 851 admitted applicants, with 713 enrolling.
What SAT and ACT scores do enrolled Citadel Military College of South Carolina students report?
In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported a middle SAT range of 1010 to 1220 among enrolled first-year students who submitted scores. 29% of the entering class submitted SAT scores.
For the ACT, the middle range was 21 to 26, with 15% of enrolled students submitting scores. These ranges describe the middle half of recent score submitters, not admission cutoffs.
The reported average high-school GPA among enrolled first-year students was 3.75, based on the 95.5% who reported a GPA. Among enrolled first-year students with a reported class rank, 10% finished in the upper tenth of their high-school class and 25% finished in the upper quarter. 74% of the entering class reported a rank.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Citadel Military College of South Carolina. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
29% of entering students submitted SAT scores
- 25th percentile
- 1010
- Median
- 1130
- 75th percentile
- 1220
CDS 2025-26 · enrolled first-year score submitters. This range is not an admission cutoff.
15% of entering students submitted ACT scores
- 25th percentile
- 21
- Median
- 23
- 75th percentile
- 26
CDS 2025-26 · enrolled first-year score submitters. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Source: Citadel Military College of South Carolina Common Data Set 2025-26, C9 · Enrolled first-time, first-year score submitters.
Who enrolls at Citadel Military College of South Carolina?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 19.8%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 12.0%
- First-year retention
- 85.8%
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.
Citadel Military College of South Carolina enrolls 2,705 undergraduates. 19.8% receive Pell Grants, and an estimated 12.0% arrive as transfers or part-time students.
The composition is predominantly a first-year entry campus. In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported 2,989 first-year applicants.
It admitted 851 and enrolled 713. For transfer entry, the university reported 93 applicants, 93 admitted, and 56 enrolled.
At Citadel Military College of South Carolina, 85.8% of full-time first-year students return for a second year. That is higher than the median of 73.7% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
The six-year graduation rate is 75.0%, surpassing the median for comparable institutions (same type and size) of 49.1%. In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported a retention rate of 87% for the first-time, full-time fall 2024 entering class.
Pell recipients finish at 72.1%, which is 2.9 percentage points under the rate for the cohort overall. Students who enroll here should expect to return for a second year and to finish within six years at rates that surpass the medians for comparable institutions. Note that Pell recipients finish at a lower 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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