Admissions & selectivity
Drury University Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Drury University?
Drury University’s reported acceptance rate is 57.6%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 57.6%
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
Drury University admits 57.6% of applicants, a rate that sits below the median of 75.7% for comparable institutions (same type and size). The university is more selective than its peer group, but the figure is a summary of one year's decisions, not a prediction for any single applicant.
What SAT and ACT scores do Drury University students report?
Among enrolled students who submitted test scores, the middle half of SAT submitters scored between 1,130 and 1,290. For ACT submitters, the corresponding range is 22 to 29.
These ranges describe the twenty-fifth through seventy-fifth percentiles of recent enrolled students who provided scores, not a minimum for admission. Applicants can use the university's own 1,130 to 1,290 SAT range and 22 to 29 ACT range as context for how their results compare with those of recent score submitters.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Drury University. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 1130
- 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.
- 25th percentile
- 22
- 75th percentile
- 29
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at Drury University?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 25.6%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 21.3%
- First-year retention
- 79.2%
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.
Drury University enrolls 1,383 undergraduates. 25.6% of undergraduates receive Pell Grants, a figure that covers the university's federal-aid reporting units rather than this campus alone.
An estimated 21.3% enter as transfers or part-time students, so a notable portion of the student body arrives after starting coursework elsewhere.
Of full-time students who start at Drury University, 79.2% return for a second year and 61.8% finish within six years. Both figures run above the peer medians—the typical rates at comparable institutions of the same type and size—of 74.2% and 54.9%.
Pell recipients in the same entering cohort complete at 36.1%, 25.7 percentage points below the overall rate. Enrolled students can expect retention and completion rates that exceed the peer medians, but the Pell completion gap means the experience is not uniform.
A student considering Drury University should weigh the overall persistence numbers against the completion rate for Pell recipients. They should also ask the university what supports it has in place for the students who are not finishing.
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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