Admissions & selectivity
Eastern Illinois University Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Eastern Illinois University?
Eastern Illinois University’s reported acceptance rate is 65.3%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 65.3%
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
For applicants, Eastern Illinois University admitted 65.3% of the reported applicant pool. That rate is below the median of 85.9% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
What SAT and ACT scores do Eastern Illinois University students report?
Among enrolled students who submitted SAT scores, the middle half landed between 880 and 1,090. That span runs from the twenty-fifth percentile to the seventy-fifth percentile of recent submitters.
The range captures only students who chose to submit scores. It does not cover every enrolled student.
It also does not set a minimum for admission. Applicants can use Eastern Illinois University's 880 to 1,090 range as context for their own results.
The figures show where recent enrolled submitters landed. They offer a snapshot of the score profile, not a cutoff.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Eastern Illinois University. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 880
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1090
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 Illinois University?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 29.4%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 38.9%
- First-year retention
- 71.7%
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 Illinois University brings together undergraduates arriving through both direct and transfer paths. Its undergraduate enrollment is 4,188, with Pell Grant recipients comprising 29.4% of undergraduates and an estimated 38.9% entering as transfers or part-time students.
Those figures suggest a campus serving students with varied financial circumstances and prior college experience, rather than only a traditional first-year population. Pell-eligible and transfer applicants should use the university’s published aid and transfer-credit information to understand how their own entry path may fit.
The sizable transfer presence sits alongside a substantial share of undergraduates receiving Pell Grants.
Pell recipients in the first-time full-time cohort complete at a higher rate than the overall cohort, even though the broader persistence measures sit below comparable institutions. Their six-year completion rate is 53.0%, above the overall six-year graduation rate of 47.4% by 5.6 percentage points.
First-year retention is 71.7%, below the peer median of 73.7% for comparable institutions (same type and size). The overall six-year measure also falls below its peer median of 49.1%.
Enrolled students can expect returning for a second year to be more common than completing within six years; Pell completion, however, runs above the overall 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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