Admissions & selectivity
CUNY Queens College Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Queens College?
Queens College’s reported acceptance rate is 64.3%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 64.3%
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 Queens College admits 64.3% of applicants, a rate that sits well below the median of 78.1% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
What SAT and ACT scores do Queens College students report?
The middle half of enrolled students who submitted SAT scores scored between 1,010 and 1,290. These are the twenty-fifth and seventy-fifth percentiles of submitted scores, not admission cutoffs.
The range describes the students who chose to submit scores and enrolled, not every applicant or every enrolled student. A score within this band is typical of recent enrolled submitters, while a score above or below it still falls within the wider pool the college admits.
Applicants can use 1,010 and 1,290 as a reference for the scores of recent enrolled submitters, rather than as a minimum for admission.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Queens College. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 1010
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1290
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 Queens College?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 47.2%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 40.7%
- First-year retention
- 78.7%
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.
CUNY Queens College enrolls 12,550 undergraduates, and nearly half receive Pell Grants. An estimated 40.7% of students arrive as transfers or part-time students.
The composition is a public university that serves a broad mix of students: many are using federal grant aid, and many are continuing coursework begun elsewhere. The campus is not defined by a single entry route.
Among full-time bachelor's-seeking students, the first-year retention rate is 78.7%, which is below the peer median of 83.1%. The six-year graduation rate for the first-time full-time cohort is 53.2%, also trailing the peer median of 65.0%.
Pell Grant recipients complete at a rate of 45.9%, a figure that sits below the overall graduation rate. Enrolled students can expect a campus where many peers transfer in and where connecting with degree-planning resources early can clarify the path to completion.
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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