Admissions & selectivity
Eastern Michigan University Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Eastern Michigan University?
Eastern Michigan University’s reported acceptance rate is 79.6%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 79.6%
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 Michigan University admits 79.6% of applicants, a rate that sits close to the median of 78.1% for comparable institutions (same type and size). The university's admission rate is therefore typical of its peer group.
What SAT and ACT scores do Eastern Michigan University students report?
Eastern Michigan University enrolls students with varied academic preparation, and the test-score ranges below reflect the middle half of recent entering students who chose to submit their results. For SAT submitters, the 25th percentile was 920 and the 75th percentile was 1,170.
For the ACT, the comparable figures were 18 and 27. Those values show where enrolled students landed, not any cutoff for admission.
Applicants can compare their own scores to the SAT range of 920 to 1,170. They can also look at the ACT range of 18 to 27 to see where they might fit among recent students.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Eastern Michigan University. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 920
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1170
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
- 18
- 75th percentile
- 27
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at Eastern Michigan University?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 36.6%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 36.1%
- First-year retention
- 68.8%
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 Michigan University enrolls 10,055 undergraduates, with an estimated 36.1% arriving as transfers or part-time students. Pell Grant recipients make up 36.6% of the student body.
The campus serves a mix of students who rely on federal grant aid and people continuing coursework begun elsewhere. That composition means the university draws from more than one entry route.
Pell-eligible applicants can use the cost calculator to estimate their own grant-adjusted price.
Eastern Michigan University serves 10,055 undergraduates, and an estimated 36.1% of them enter as transfers or part-time students. The university's strongest is access, where Azimuth places it in the 85th percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions, alongside a Pell share of 36.6%.
Among first-time, full-time students, the first-year retention rate is 68.8%, below the peer median of 83.1% for comparable institutions (same type and size). The six-year graduation rate for that cohort is 46.4%, also below the peer median of 65.0%.
Pell Grant recipients complete at a rate of 44.2%, which is below the overall six-year rate by 2.2 percentage points. Enrolled students can expect a university where graduation outcomes trail those of comparable institutions, and where Pell Grant recipients complete at a rate below the overall figure.
The wide access and the transfer-in share point to an institution that draws a broad range of students.
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.
Figure notes link to sources and limitations. About College Azimuth.