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# Colorado School of Mines Acceptance Rate & Admissions

Updated September 30, 2026

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## What is the acceptance rate at Colorado School of Mines?

Colorado School of Mines’s reported acceptance rate is 60.7%.

**Acceptance rate · Fall 2024**
60.7%

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.

How to interpret the acceptance rate

Colorado School of Mines admits 60.7% of applicants, a figure that sits well below the median of 85.9% for comparable institutions (same type and size).

## What SAT and ACT scores do Colorado School of Mines students report?

Enrolled students who submitted SAT scores posted a middle 50% from 1,320 to 1,480. Among ACT submitters, the middle half ran from 29 to 33.

These ranges describe the profile of recent score submitters, not a floor for admission. An applicant can weigh their own results against the university's 1,320–1,480 SAT band and 29–33 ACT band as one piece of the picture.

The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Colorado School of Mines. 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**
1320

**Approximate upper endpoint**
1480

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**
29

**75th percentile**
33

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

Figures cover fall 2024.

## Who enrolls at Colorado School of Mines?

**Pell Grant recipients**
13.6%

**Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group**
8.8%

**First-year retention**
92.8%

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.

An estimated 8.8% of students at Colorado School of Mines arrive as transfers or part-time students, which means most undergraduates enter as first-time students. The university enrolls 6,155 undergraduates, and 13.6% receive Pell Grants.

That mix points to a student body composed largely of students who start fresh out of high school and who do not receive federal need-based grants. The figures describe who is enrolled, not how the admissions office weighs candidates.

Full-time bachelor's-seeking entrants return at a rate of 92.8%, well above the 73.7% median for comparable institutions. The [six-year graduation rate](/analysis/what-the-graduation-rate-doesnt-count/) for that cohort is 81.7%, against a peer median of 49.1%.

Pell recipients in the same entering cohort complete at 80.4%, 1.3 percentage points below the overall rate. Students who enroll can expect persistence and completion outcomes that exceed the peer medians, and Pell recipients finish at a rate close to the cohort as a whole.

## 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/).