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# College of the Ozarks Acceptance Rate & Admissions

Updated October 1, 2026

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## What is the acceptance rate at College of the Ozarks?

College of the Ozarks’s reported acceptance rate is 12.0%.

**Acceptance rate · Fall 2024**
12.0%

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

College of the Ozarks admitted 12.0% of applicants in the reported entering-class cycle, a much smaller share than its comparable institutions. That rate is below the median of 75.7% for comparable institutions (same type and size).

It summarizes the result for the full applicant pool in that year, rather than setting a threshold for admission.

## What SAT and ACT scores do College of the Ozarks students report?

College of the Ozarks offers a submitted-score profile that gives applicants context for recent enrollees, rather than admission thresholds. Among enrolled students who submitted SAT scores, the middle fifty percent scored from 1,050 to 1,220.

For ACT submitters, the middle fifty percent scored from 20 to 25. These ranges cover enrolled score submitters, not every member of the entering class, and they do not establish minimum scores.

The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at College of the Ozarks. 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**
1050

**Approximate upper endpoint**
1220

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**
20

**75th percentile**
25

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

Figures cover fall 2024.

## Who enrolls at College of the Ozarks?

**Pell Grant recipients**
49.2%

**Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group**
7.5%

**First-year retention**
90.2%

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.

Federal grant aid is part of the undergraduate picture at College of the Ozarks, where 49.2% of undergraduates receive Pell Grants. The university has 1,444 undergraduates, and an estimated 7.5% enter after beginning coursework elsewhere.

The mix describes a campus that includes both Pell Grant recipients and transfer entrants alongside other undergraduates, rather than a single route into study.

Students who begin full time at College of the Ozarks return for their second year at a rate above that of comparable institutions. First-year retention for the full-time bachelor's-seeking cohort is 90.2%, above the peer median, the middle value for comparable institutions (same type and size), of 74.2%.

The first-time full-time cohort's [six-year graduation rate](/analysis/what-the-graduation-rate-doesnt-count/) is 63.7%, also above the comparable-institution median of 54.9%. Enrolled students can expect retention and graduation measures that exceed those at comparable institutions, although these rates describe cohorts rather than any individual student's path.

## 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/).