Admissions & selectivity
Indiana University-Northwest Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Indiana University-Northwest?
Indiana University-Northwest’s reported acceptance rate is 73.4%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 73.4%
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
Indiana University-Northwest admitted 73.4% of applicants in the reported entering-class cycle, placing its published rate below that of comparable institutions. The comparison point is the median of 85.9% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
What SAT and ACT scores do Indiana University-Northwest students report?
Indiana University-Northwest presents submitted-score ranges as context for recent enrolled students, rather than as admission minimums or guarantees. For enrolled SAT submitters, scores from 910 through 1,180 mark the middle half of results, spanning the twenty-fifth through seventy-fifth percentiles.
Among ACT submitters, the corresponding middle half ran from 18 to 26. These ranges describe enrolled score submitters, not every member of the entering class.
Applicants can set their SAT result alongside the university’s 910 through 1,180 range when weighing where to apply. They can similarly use the 18 through 26 ACT range as a reference for recent enrolled submitters.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Indiana University-Northwest. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 910
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1180
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
- 26
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at Indiana University-Northwest?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 42.5%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 38.7%
- First-year retention
- 71.4%
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.
Indiana University-Northwest has undergraduate enrollment of 2,661, with attendance patterns that include grant-aided learners and people continuing coursework begun elsewhere. Pell Grants go to 42.5% of undergraduates, a financial-access measure rather than a description of household income.
An estimated 38.7% of undergraduates entered as transfers or part-time students, so prior college coursework is part of the campus composition. These figures suggest more than one common path into study, rather than a student body defined solely by direct entry from high school.
The first-year retention rate for full-time bachelor's-seeking entrants is 71.4%, just below the 73.7% median for comparable institutions. The six-year graduation rate for the same cohort is 37.4%, against a peer median of 49.1%.
Pell recipients in that cohort complete at 29.0%, which is 8.4 percentage points below the overall rate. The gap is a fact about the entering class, not an explanation of it.
A student enrolling here should expect a campus where many peers arrive from other institutions and where finishing on time is not the norm. The figures describe the first-time full-time cohort; the large estimated transfer population may follow a different path.
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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