Admissions & selectivity
East Central University Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at East Central University?
East Central University’s reported acceptance rate is 58.2%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 58.2%
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
East Central University admits 58.1% of applicants, well below the median of 85.9% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
What SAT and ACT scores do East Central University students report?
The middle half of enrolled students who submitted SAT scores fell between 900 and 1,120. For those who submitted ACT scores, the middle half ranged from 17 to 24.
These figures are not admission cutoffs. They show where the central portion of recent score submitters landed.
An applicant whose scores sit within or above these ranges is looking at the same neighborhood as many enrolled students who chose to report them.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at East Central University. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 900
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1120
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
- 17
- 75th percentile
- 24
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at East Central University?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 45.0%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 45.0%
- First-year retention
- 60.6%
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.
East Central University is a public university in Ada, Oklahoma, enrolling 2,467 undergraduates. The student body is split almost evenly between first-time students and those continuing coursework begun elsewhere, with an estimated 45.0% arriving as transfers or part-time students.
45.0% of undergraduates receive Pell Grants, a measure of financial access. The composition suggests a campus that draws from multiple entry points rather than a single traditional pipeline.
The six-year graduation rate for full-time bachelor's-seeking entrants is 34.4%. That figure sits below the peer median of 49.1% for comparable institutions.
First-year retention is 60.6%, likewise below the comparable-institution median of 73.7%. Pell recipients in the same entering cohort complete at 40.1%.
That rate is 5.7 percentage points above the figure for the cohort as a whole. Students who enroll should know that first-year persistence and six-year completion both lag comparable-institution medians, and that Pell recipients in this cohort have posted the higher completion rate.
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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