Admissions & selectivity
East Carolina University Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at East Carolina University?
East Carolina University’s reported acceptance rate is 89.2%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 89.2%
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
Admission is relatively broad at East Carolina University, which admitted 89.2% of applicants in the reported cycle. That rate is above the median of 78.1% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
What SAT and ACT scores do East Carolina University students report?
East Carolina University’s submitted-score profile places the middle half of SAT results between 1,070 and 1,240. Those are the twenty-fifth through seventy-fifth percentiles for enrolled students who submitted SAT scores, rather than minimums for admission.
For ACT submitters, the corresponding enrolled-score range runs from 21 to 26. Applicants comparing SAT results should use East Carolina University’s 1,070 to 1,240 range as context for recent enrolled submitters.
Applicants using ACT results should compare them with the university’s 21 to 26 range. The two ranges describe score submitters, not every enrolled student.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at East Carolina University. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 1070
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1240
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
- 21
- 75th percentile
- 26
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at East Carolina University?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 31.8%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 31.6%
- First-year retention
- 82.7%
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.
East Carolina University enrolls a broad undergraduate population that includes substantial Pell Grant participation and a notable estimated transfer presence. 31.8% of undergraduates receive Pell Grants, an indicator of financial access, and the estimated share of entrants outside the first-time, full-time group is 31.6%.
Undergraduate enrollment totals 19,896 undergraduates, so the campus includes people entering through different academic and financial circumstances rather than a single route. These figures describe the composition of enrollment, not admission priorities or an individual applicant's odds.
Students who enroll at East Carolina University complete at rates that track the peer medians closely. The first-year retention rate is 82.7%, just below the median of 83.1% for comparable institutions.
The six-year graduation rate for the first-time full-time cohort is 62.6%, also slightly below the peer median of 65.0%. Pell recipients in that cohort finish at 62.8%, which is 0.2 percentage points above the overall rate.
Enrolled students can expect retention and graduation rates near the peer medians.
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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