Admissions & selectivity
Columbus State University Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Columbus State University?
Columbus State University’s reported acceptance rate is 99.1%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 99.1%
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.
Source: Columbus State University Common Data Set 2024-25, C1 · first-time, first-year students.
How to interpret the acceptance rate
Columbus State University admitted 99.1% of applicants, making admission broadly available within the reported applicant pool. The rate is above the median of 85.9% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
In its 2024-25 Common Data Set, the university reported 3,651 first-year applicants and 3,617 admitted applicants.
What SAT and ACT scores do enrolled Columbus State University students report?
In its 2024-25 Common Data Set, the university reported that the middle half of enrolled first-year students who submitted SAT scores scored between 800 and 1030. Only 13% of the entering class submitted SAT scores, so the range describes a small slice of the cohort.
For the 12% who submitted ACT scores, the middle half ranged from 16 to 22. Among enrolled first-year students with a reported high-school class rank, 10% placed in the highest tenth and 31% in the highest quarter. Just over half of the entering class, 52%, reported a rank.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Columbus State University. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
13% of entering students submitted SAT scores
- 25th percentile
- 800
- Median
- 930
- 75th percentile
- 1030
CDS 2024-25 · enrolled first-year score submitters. This range is not an admission cutoff.
12% of entering students submitted ACT scores
- 25th percentile
- 16
- Median
- 19
- 75th percentile
- 22
CDS 2024-25 · enrolled first-year score submitters. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Source: Columbus State University Common Data Set 2024-25, C9 · Enrolled first-time, first-year score submitters.
Who enrolls at Columbus State University?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 44.6%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 34.3%
- First-year retention
- 69.7%
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.
Pell Grant recipients make up 44.6% of Columbus State University undergraduates, indicating that federal grant aid is part of the enrollment picture. Federal enrollment data count 5,625 undergraduates, and an estimated 34.3% arrived as transfers or part-time students, so the campus includes people beginning college there and people continuing prior coursework.
In its 2024-25 Common Data Set, the university reported 982 degree-seeking transfer applicants, 685 admitted, and 406 enrolled.
Students at Columbus State University see retention and completion rates below the medians for comparable institutions. The first-year retention rate for full-time bachelor’s-seeking students is 69.7%, below the peer median of 73.7%.
For the first-time full-time cohort, the six-year graduation rate is 41.8%, also below the peer median of 49.1%. Pell recipients in that cohort have a six-year completion rate of 36.3%, below the overall rate by 5.5 percentage 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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