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# Florida Southern College Acceptance Rate & Admissions

Updated October 1, 2026

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## What is the acceptance rate at Florida Southern College?

Florida Southern College’s reported acceptance rate is 64.4%.

**Acceptance rate · Fall 2024**
64.4%

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.

How to interpret the acceptance rate

Florida Southern College admitted 64.4% of applicants to its reported entering class, a rate that describes that year’s pool rather than an individual outcome. That rate is lower than the median of 71.2% for comparable institutions (same type and size).

## What SAT and ACT scores do Florida Southern College students report?

Florida Southern College’s submitted-score ranges offer a useful reference point for applicants, not an admission threshold. For applicants comparing SAT results, the college’s own range of 1,150 to 1,330 marks the middle 50% of scores submitted by enrolled students, from the 25th to the 75th percentile.

The corresponding ACT range for enrolled score submitters is 25 to 30. These figures describe the scores of students who enrolled and chose to submit results; they do not represent every enrolled student or establish minimum scores.

Used as context, the ranges show the span of reported scores within the recent enrolled group.

The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Florida Southern College. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.

SAT: approximate enrolled-student range

**Approximate lower endpoint**
1150

**Approximate upper endpoint**
1330

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.

ACT: enrolled-student score range

**25th percentile**
25

**75th percentile**
30

Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.

Figures cover fall 2024.

## Who enrolls at Florida Southern College?

**Pell Grant recipients**
28.1%

**Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group**
12.6%

**First-year retention**
80.0%

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.

At 28.1%, Pell Grant recipients make up a visible share of Florida Southern College’s undergraduate body. The college enrolls 2,656 undergraduates, and an estimated 12.6% arrive through transfer routes, so the undergraduate population includes both students using federal grant aid and people continuing studies begun elsewhere.

These figures describe enrollment composition rather than admission priorities or an individual applicant’s prospects.

Florida Southern College has a mixed continuation record: its six-year completion rate is above the comparable-institution benchmark, while first-year retention is below it. Pell recipients in the first-time full-time cohort complete within six years at 65.0%, below the overall rate by 5.5 percentage points.

For that full-time cohort, the [six-year graduation rate](/analysis/what-the-graduation-rate-doesnt-count/) is 70.5%; the peer median, the middle value for comparable institutions (same type and size), is 68.8%. Among full-time bachelor’s-seeking entrants, 80.0% return for a second year, compared with 83.4% at comparable institutions.

Enrolled students can expect graduation outcomes to compare better with peers than first-year continuation does.

## Data & methodology

Sources and reporting periods: [methodology](/methodology/).

Analysis and methodology by [Daniel Rogers](/about/#founder), 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](/about/).