Admissions & selectivity
Fort Hays State University Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Fort Hays State University?
Fort Hays State University’s reported acceptance rate is 90.3%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 90.3%
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
Fort Hays State University admitted 90.3% of applicants in the reported entering class, so the published rate indicates that most applicants received an offer. That rate is above the median of 85.9% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
What SAT and ACT scores do Fort Hays State University students report?
Test scores offer a reference point for applicants comparing their academic record with recent enrolled score submitters at Fort Hays State University. Applicants should compare an SAT score with the 970 to 1,140 range and an ACT score with the 18 to 24 range.
These are the middle half of submitted scores, spanning the twenty-fifth through seventy-fifth percentiles for enrolled students who submitted each test, rather than admission minimums. The ranges do not describe every enrolled student, since some students did not submit scores.
Read them as context for the academic profile of score submitters, not as a prediction of an admission decision.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Fort Hays State University. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 970
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1140
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
- 24
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at Fort Hays State University?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 22.8%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 61.0%
- 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.
Transfer entry is a prominent part of the undergraduate mix at Fort Hays State University, where an estimated 61.0% of undergraduates arrive as transfers or part-time students. Pell Grant recipients account for 22.8% of undergraduates, placing federal grant aid alongside transfer enrollment in the school’s composition.
Undergraduate enrollment totals 9,733, suggesting a campus that includes both people beginning their studies there and people continuing work started elsewhere. That mix does not describe admission priorities or any individual applicant’s prospects.
Returning after the first year is a relative strength at Fort Hays State University: the retention rate is 76.9%, above the peer median of 73.7% for comparable institutions. The six-year graduation rate for the first-time full-time cohort is 47.7%, below the peer median of 49.1%.
Pell recipients in the first-time full-time cohort have a six-year completion rate of 36.4%, below the overall rate by 11.3 percentage points. Enrolled students can expect these figures to describe cohort patterns for returning and finishing, rather than a timetable for any individual.
Retention runs above the peer comparison, while six-year completion sits below it.
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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