Admissions & selectivity
Indiana University of Pennsylvania Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Indiana University of Pennsylvania?
Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s reported acceptance rate is 90.8%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 90.8%
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
Most applicants in the reported pool were admitted to Indiana University of Pennsylvania, at 90.8%. The rate stands above the median of 85.9% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
Applicants should compare their preparation with the university's score ranges before deciding where to apply. It describes an outcome across the reported pool and offers context for building an application list, rather than a prediction for an individual.
What SAT and ACT scores do Indiana University of Pennsylvania students report?
Enrolled students who submitted SAT scores posted a middle range from 970 to 1,180. ACT submitters fell between 20 and 27.
These are the twenty-fifth and seventy-fifth percentiles of recent score submitters, not admission cutoffs. They describe the students who chose to share scores, not the full entering class.
An applicant can place their own results against the university's 970–1,180 SAT band. For the ACT, the comparable band is 20–27.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 970
- 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
- 20
- 75th percentile
- 27
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at Indiana University of Pennsylvania?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 36.8%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 15.9%
- First-year retention
- 75.3%
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 of Pennsylvania enrolls a mix of students receiving Pell Grants and students who began college elsewhere. Pell Grant recipients make up 36.8% of undergraduates, and the estimated share of entrants outside the first-time, full-time group is 15.9%.
With 6,764 undergraduates, the public university’s composition includes both aid-eligible undergraduates and a visible transfer population. That mix describes who attends, rather than any admission priority or individual applicant’s prospects.
Pell-eligible and transfer applicants should compare their own aid offers and transfer-credit evaluations before deciding whether the university fits their plans.
Indiana University of Pennsylvania retains 75.3% of its first-year full-time bachelor’s-seeking cohort, above the peer median of 73.7% for comparable institutions. Enrolled students can expect most members of that cohort to return for a second year, though a retention rate does not describe any one student’s path.
The six-year graduation rate for the first-time full-time cohort is 55.5%, above the peer median of 49.1%. Pell recipients in this cohort have a six-year completion rate of 43.9%, below the overall rate by 11.6 percentage points.
Both overall measures exceed their peer medians, but Pell completion remains lower than overall completion.
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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