Admissions & selectivity
CUNY Bernard M Baruch College Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Baruch College?
Baruch College’s reported acceptance rate is 47.5%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 47.5%
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
CUNY Bernard M Baruch College admits 47.5% of applicants, well below the median of 78.1% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
What SAT and ACT scores do Baruch College students report?
In its 2024-25 Common Data Set, the university reported a 3.66 average high-school GPA among enrolled first-year students, based on the 91.3% who reported a GPA. This is an average of those who reported, not a cutoff.
For enrolled students who submitted SAT scores, the middle half scored between 1,100 and 1,400. Only 12% of the entering class submitted scores, so the range describes a small slice of the class.
Applicants can compare their own scores with the 1,100 to 1,400 range, keeping in mind that it reflects the enrolled students who chose to submit, not a minimum for admission.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Baruch College. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 1100
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1400
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.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at Baruch College?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 56.9%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 39.8%
- First-year retention
- 88.6%
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.
CUNY Bernard M Baruch College enrolls 16,154 undergraduates, and more than half of them receive Pell Grants. An estimated 39.8% of students arrive as transfers or part-time students, so the campus is shaped by multiple entry points rather than a single first-year pipeline.
In its 2024-25 Common Data Set, the university reported 7,244 degree-seeking transfer applicants, 3,687 admitted, and 1,641 enrolled. The federal admission rate for first-year applicants is 47.5%, well below the peer median of 78.1% for comparable institutions.
Among first-time full-time students, the first-year retention rate is 88.6%, above the peer median of 83.1%. The six-year graduation rate is 72.1%, also above the peer median of 65.0%.
In its 2024-25 Common Data Set, the university reported a six-year graduation rate of 72.0% for the first-time, full-time fall 2018 entering class. Pell recipients in that cohort completed at 74.0%, above the overall rate.
Pell recipients complete at 64.8%, below the overall rate by 7.3 percentage points. Enrolled students can expect an institution where most first-year students return and the majority graduate within six years, with completion rates that exceed the typical outcomes at comparable institutions.
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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