Admissions & selectivity
Fordham University Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Fordham University?
Fordham University’s reported acceptance rate is 59.3%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 59.3%
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
Fordham University admits 59.3% of applicants, a rate that sits below the median of 47.1% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
What SAT and ACT scores do Fordham University students report?
Fordham University enrolls students with strong submitted test scores in its most recent entering class. The middle half of enrolled students who submitted SAT scores scored between 1,320 and 1,480.
For the ACT, the middle half of enrolled students who submitted scores scored between 30 and 33. Those figures reflect the scores of recent students who chose to submit them, not a floor for admission.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Fordham University. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 1320
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1480
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
- 30
- 75th percentile
- 33
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at Fordham University?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 21.4%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 11.6%
- First-year retention
- 88.5%
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.
Fordham University enrolls 10,512 undergraduates, and the student body is drawn from more than one entry point. 21.4% of undergraduates receive Pell Grants, and an estimated 11.6% arrive as transfers or part-time students.
The composition suggests a campus where a significant share of students are using federal grant aid, alongside people continuing coursework begun elsewhere. It is not a student body defined by a single path in.
Pell-eligible applicants should use the university's net price calculator to estimate their own grant-adjusted cost.
Fordham University keeps most of its first-year students on track and graduates them at a rate well above comparable institutions. The first-year retention rate is 88.5%, and the six-year graduation rate for the first-time full-time cohort is 81.9%.
Both figures exceed the peer medians—90.1% for retention and 80.0% for completion among institutions of the same type and size. Pell Grant recipients complete at 74.8%, which is below the overall six-year rate by 7.1 percentage points.
Enrolled students can expect a university where the majority of first-year students return and where the entering class as a whole graduates at a rate above the peer median.
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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