Admissions & selectivity
Creighton University Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Creighton University?
Creighton University’s reported acceptance rate is 79.7%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 79.7%
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
Creighton University admitted 79.8% of its reported applicant pool, a rate above the median of 71.2% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
What SAT and ACT scores do Creighton University students report?
Creighton University’s submitted-score ranges offer a useful benchmark for applicants, but they describe enrolled students rather than admission minimums. Applicants comparing their preparation with the university’s own SAT range should use 1,243 through 1,428 as context, not a cutoff.
Among enrolled students who submitted SAT scores, the middle fifty percent fell within that span, from the twenty-fifth through seventy-fifth percentiles. For ACT submitters, the corresponding middle half scored from 26 to 31.
Because these ranges reflect only enrolled score submitters, they do not describe every student in the entering class. They provide a concrete picture of the score profiles represented among recent enrollees.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Creighton University. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 1243
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1428
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.
- 25th percentile
- 26
- 75th percentile
- 31
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at Creighton University?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 11.5%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 12.0%
- First-year retention
- 94.2%
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.
Creighton University enrolls a relatively small share of undergraduates receiving Pell Grants, alongside students arriving through more than one entry route. Of 4,348 undergraduates, 11.5% receive Pell Grants, a federal financial-access measure.
An estimated 12.0% of the undergraduate population entered as transfers or part-time students, so continuing students from other institutions are part of the campus composition as well. These figures describe who is enrolled, rather than how admission decisions are made or any applicant’s individual prospects.
The enrollment picture includes federal grant recipients and transfer entrants, but neither group makes up a large share of undergraduates.
Among Creighton University’s first-time full-time cohort, 83.4% complete within six years, ahead of the peer median, the middle value for comparable institutions (same type and size), of 68.8%. Students also return after their first year at a 94.2% rate, compared with 83.4% at comparable institutions.
The six-year completion rate for Pell recipients is 73.7%, below the overall rate by 9.7 percentage points. Enrolled students can expect return and six-year completion figures that sit above the comparable-institution medians, alongside a lower completion rate for Pell recipients.
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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