Admissions & selectivity
CUNY Lehman College Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Lehman College?
Lehman College’s reported acceptance rate is 56.6%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 56.6%
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 Lehman College admits 56.6% of applicants, a rate that sits below the median of 78.1% for comparable institutions (same type and size). The college is more selective than its peer group, yet the rate still reflects broad access for a public university in the Bronx.
What SAT and ACT scores do Lehman College students report?
The middle half of enrolled students who submitted SAT scores scored between 850 and 1,150. These ranges describe the twenty-fifth through seventy-fifth percentiles of recent score submitters, not a minimum for admission or a cutoff.
Applicants can use the 850 to 1,150 range at CUNY Lehman College as a point of comparison for their own scores. The figures reflect enrolled students who chose to submit scores, so they describe the middle of that group rather than a threshold every applicant must meet.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Lehman College. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 850
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1150
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 Lehman College?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 59.9%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 51.0%
- First-year retention
- 73.1%
Retention source: College Scorecard; full-time first-year retention.
About these student measures
These measures use different populations and reporting periods, rather than one current entering class. The entering-student group includes part-time entrants as well as other attendance patterns.
CUNY Lehman College enrolls 10,696 undergraduates, and nearly three in five receive Pell Grants. An estimated 51.0% of students arrive as transfers or part-time students, so the campus is shaped as much by students continuing work begun elsewhere as by those who started here.
The Pell share sits at 59.9%, a figure that speaks to the university's role as an engine of access in the Bronx. The transfer share means that a student entering through that route is joining a large and established part of the student body, not a small exception.
Pell-eligible applicants should use the cost calculator to see their own grant-adjusted price, and transfer applicants should review the transfer credit policies alongside their intended program.
Among full-time bachelor's-seeking first-year students, 73.1% return for their second year, below the peer median of 83.1%. The six-year graduation rate for the first-time full-time cohort is 51.3%, which trails the peer median of 65.0%.
Pell Grant recipients complete at a rate of 56.6%, above the overall graduation rate. Enrolled students can expect an institution where Pell recipients complete at a higher rate than the overall first-time full-time cohort, though retention and overall graduation rates lag behind comparable institutions.
Data & methodology
A missing figure does not mean zero. 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.
Figure notes link to sources and limitations. About College Azimuth.