Admissions & selectivity
Eastern Kentucky University Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Eastern Kentucky University?
Eastern Kentucky University’s reported acceptance rate is 77.6%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 77.6%
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
Eastern Kentucky University admitted 77.6% of applicants, a rate close to the median of 78.1% for comparable institutions (same type and size). The figure summarizes the share admitted from the reported applicant pool, rather than setting a threshold for any individual.
What SAT and ACT scores do Eastern Kentucky University students report?
The score profile offers a practical comparison point for applicants, rather than admission minimums. Applicants should compare their results with Eastern Kentucky University’s SAT range of 880 to 1,080 and ACT range of 19 to 25.
Both ranges describe the middle half of scores submitted by enrolled students, spanning the twenty-fifth through seventy-fifth percentiles. They do not describe every enrolled student, since some students did not submit scores.
The figures also do not set a required score for admission; they show where recent score submitters fell within the enrolled class.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Eastern Kentucky 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
- 1080
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
- 19
- 75th percentile
- 25
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at Eastern Kentucky University?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 41.1%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 28.4%
- First-year retention
- 76.9%
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 Kentucky University draws undergraduates through both direct and transfer routes, with federal grant aid also part of its enrollment picture. Its undergraduate enrollment is 12,318 undergraduates; 41.1% receive Pell Grants, a financial-access measure.
An estimated 28.4% entered as transfers or part-time students, so the campus includes people continuing coursework begun elsewhere as well as those starting there. These figures describe who attends, rather than admission priorities or any individual applicant’s prospects.
At Eastern Kentucky University, the first-time full-time cohort completes at a rate that trails the peer median, and the gap widens for Pell recipients. The six-year graduation rate is 50.0%, against a median of 65.0% for comparable institutions.
First-year retention sits at 76.9%, likewise below the peer median of 83.1%. Pell recipients in that cohort complete at 38.9%, which is 11.1 percentage points below the overall rate.
The gap is a fact about outcomes, not an explanation of them. An enrolled student should expect a campus where fewer than four in five first-year students return, and where finishing in six years is not the norm.
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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