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# Clayton State University Acceptance Rate & Admissions

Updated October 1, 2026

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## What is the acceptance rate at Clayton State University?

Clayton State University’s reported acceptance rate is 68.4%.

**Acceptance rate · Fall 2024**
68.4%

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

Clayton State University admitted 68.5% of applicants in the reported entering-class cycle, so the rate describes a broad admissions outcome rather than an individual prediction. That rate is below the median of 85.9% for comparable institutions (same type and size).

## What SAT and ACT scores do Clayton State University students report?

At Clayton State University, submitted-score ranges offer context for the academic profile of enrolled score submitters rather than thresholds for admission. They describe only those enrolled students who chose to submit scores, not every student in the entering class.

Applicants using SAT scores should compare their result with the university's 860 to 1,078 range, which marks the middle half of enrolled SAT submitters. For ACT submitters, the middle half of enrolled scores ran from 15 to 19.

Applicants using ACT scores should treat that published range as context for recent enrolled submitters, not as a minimum for admission.

The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Clayton State University. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.

SAT: approximate enrolled-student range

**Approximate lower endpoint**
860

**Approximate upper endpoint**
1078

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.

ACT: enrolled-student score range

**25th percentile**
15

**75th percentile**
19

Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.

Figures cover fall 2024.

## Who enrolls at Clayton State University?

**Pell Grant recipients**
52.2%

**Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group**
58.3%

**First-year retention**
70.9%

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 Clayton State University, federal grant recipients and transfer entrants make up a visible part of undergraduate enrollment. The university enrolls 4,348 undergraduates, and 52.2% receive Pell Grants, a financial-access measure.

Its estimated share of entrants outside the first-time, full-time group is 58.3%, so the undergraduate community includes people who start there and people continuing coursework begun elsewhere. These figures describe distinct routes into the university, not a single typical route. The enrollment figures describe who attends rather than admission priorities.

At Clayton State University, staying enrolled after the first year is less common than at comparable institutions. 70.9% of full-time bachelor’s-seeking first-year students return, compared with the peer median, the middle value for comparable institutions (same type and size), of 73.7%.

Completion presents a similar picture: the first-time full-time cohort has a [six-year graduation rate](/analysis/what-the-graduation-rate-doesnt-count/) of 39.9%, against a peer median of 49.1%. Pell recipients in that cohort complete within six years at 42.1%, above the overall rate by 2.2 percentage points.

Enrolled students can expect retention and six-year completion to describe different points in their path through the university.

## 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/).