Admissions & selectivity
Eastern Connecticut State University Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Eastern Connecticut State University?
Eastern Connecticut State University’s reported acceptance rate is 83.0%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 83.0%
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 at Eastern Connecticut State University is broadly in line with comparable institutions, with 83.0% of applicants admitted in the reported entering-class pool. That rate is below the median of 85.9% for comparable institutions (same type and size), a modest difference in the direction of a smaller admitted share.
What SAT and ACT scores do Eastern Connecticut State University students report?
Recent SAT submitters at Eastern Connecticut State University clustered across a wide middle range, rather than around a single score. Among enrolled students who submitted SAT scores, the middle fifty percent scored from 1,070 to 1,260, spanning the twenty-fifth through seventy-fifth percentiles.
These are results for enrolled score submitters, not minimum scores for admission and not a profile of the full enrolled class. Applicants should compare an SAT result with the university's own 1,070 through 1,260 range when judging how their score fits recent enrolled submitters.
Scores outside that range do not establish an admission outcome, but the published span provides concrete context for an application list.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Eastern Connecticut State 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
- 1260
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 Eastern Connecticut State University?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 28.7%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 25.9%
- First-year retention
- 83.7%
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.
Eastern Connecticut State University serves a mix of undergraduates using federal grant aid and people entering after prior college study. Pell Grants reach 28.7% of the university’s 3,418 undergraduates, a financial-access measure rather than a description of family background.
The estimated share of entrants outside the first-time, full-time group is 25.9%, so transfer routes are a visible part of the undergraduate population alongside first-time entry. These figures describe enrolled undergraduates, not admission priorities or an individual applicant’s prospects. The enrollment mix points to more than one common route into the university.
Students who begin at Eastern Connecticut State University remain enrolled and finish at rates above those of comparable institutions. The first-year retention rate for the full-time bachelor’s-seeking cohort is 83.7%, above the peer median of 73.7% for comparable institutions in the same type and size.
Its six-year graduation rate for the first-time full-time cohort is 57.5%, also above the peer median of 49.1%. Pell recipients in that first-time full-time cohort have a six-year completion rate of 53.6%, below the overall rate by 3.9 percentage points.
Enrolled students can expect published retention and graduation measures that exceed the comparable-institution medians. The peer-relative outcomes are positive, alongside a lower completion rate for Pell recipients.
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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