Admissions & selectivity
Florida Gulf Coast University Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at FGCU?
FGCU’s reported acceptance rate is 63.4%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 63.4%
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.
Source: Florida Gulf Coast University Common Data Set 2024-25, C1 · first-time, first-year students.
How to interpret the acceptance rate
Florida Gulf Coast University admitted 63.4% of applicants, below the median of 78.1% for comparable institutions (same type and size). In its 2024-25 Common Data Set, the university reported 20,420 first-year applicants and 12,955 admitted applicants.
What SAT and ACT scores do enrolled FGCU students report?
In its 2024-25 Common Data Set, the university reported an average high-school GPA of 4.12 among enrolled first-year students who reported GPA; it is an average, not a cutoff. For SAT submitters, the middle half of scores ran from 1050 to 1200, and 79% of enrolled first-year students submitted SAT scores.
ACT submitters had a middle-half range from 20 to 25, with 45% of enrolled first-year students submitting ACT scores. These figures show the scores of enrolled submitters rather than admission thresholds.
Among first-year students with a reported class rank, 22% were in the highest tenth of their high-school class and 50% were in the highest quarter. Applicants can compare their submitted SAT scores with the 1050 to 1200 range, or ACT scores with the 20 to 25 range, when considering this academic profile.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at FGCU. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
79% of entering students submitted SAT scores
- 25th percentile
- 1050
- Median
- 1110
- 75th percentile
- 1200
CDS 2024-25 · enrolled first-year score submitters. This range is not an admission cutoff.
45% of entering students submitted ACT scores
- 25th percentile
- 20
- Median
- 22
- 75th percentile
- 25
CDS 2024-25 · enrolled first-year score submitters. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Source: Florida Gulf Coast University Common Data Set 2024-25, C9 · Enrolled first-time, first-year score submitters.
Who enrolls at FGCU?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 27.9%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 40.3%
- First-year retention
- 83.2%
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.
Florida Gulf Coast University has a substantial transfer presence alongside a broad undergraduate population. It enrolls 13,874 undergraduates; 27.9% receive Pell Grants, and an estimated 40.3% enter as transfers or part-time students.
Those figures describe a campus serving aid recipients and many people continuing college work begun elsewhere. In its 2024-25 Common Data Set, the university reported 2,099 degree-seeking transfer applicants, 1,843 admitted, and 1,091 enrolled.
The transfer figures show that this route is a material part of the entering picture. Pell-eligible applicants should compare grant offers, and transfer applicants should ask how prior coursework will apply before enrolling.
Florida Gulf Coast University holds onto first-year students at the peer norm, yet its six-year completion figure trails comparable institutions. For the first-time full-time cohort, the first-year retention rate is 83.2%, the same as the peer median of 83.1% for comparable institutions.
The six-year graduation rate is 57.4%, below the peer median of 65.0% for comparable institutions. Pell recipients in that cohort have a six-year completion rate of 48.7%, below the overall rate by 8.7 percentage points.
Enrolled students can expect first-year continuation in line with peers, but should keep the longer completion pattern in view when mapping their course plan.
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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