Admissions & selectivity
Indiana University-South Bend Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Indiana University-South Bend?
Indiana University-South Bend’s reported acceptance rate is 83.8%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 83.8%
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
Indiana University-South Bend admitted 83.8% of applicants, so the rate describes a broad share of the reported entering-class applicant pool. In its comparison group, that figure falls below the median of 85.9% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
What SAT and ACT scores do Indiana University-South Bend students report?
At Indiana University-South Bend, submitted-score ranges offer context for applicants rather than admission minimums. Applicants can use the SAT range from 950 through 1,190 as a reference: it marks the middle half of scores submitted by enrolled students.
For the ACT, the middle half of scores submitted by enrolled students falls from 21 through 23. That provides a separate benchmark for applicants submitting that test.
Neither range describes every enrolled student, since both are limited to people who submitted scores. Read together, the SAT and ACT figures show the academic range represented among recent score submitters.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Indiana University-South Bend. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 950
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1190
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
- 21
- 75th percentile
- 23
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at Indiana University-South Bend?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 42.7%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 31.1%
- First-year retention
- 65.1%
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.
Pell Grant recipients account for 42.7% of undergraduates at Indiana University-South Bend, placing federal grant aid within its undergraduate makeup. Undergraduate enrollment is 3,933, and an estimated 31.1% entered as transfers or part-time students after beginning college elsewhere.
That pattern suggests an undergraduate body that includes both aid recipients and people continuing prior coursework.
Completion is the harder part of the student-outcome picture, with both retention and graduation below the relevant peer medians. For full-time bachelor’s-seeking first-year students, the first-year retention rate is 65.1%, below the peer median of 73.7% for comparable institutions.
The first-time full-time cohort has a six-year graduation rate of 40.1%, also below the peer median of 49.1%. Pell recipients in that cohort have a six-year completion rate of 35.2%, below the overall rate by 4.9 percentage points.
Enrolled students can expect these cohort measures to describe return after the first year and completion within six years, rather than an individual timetable. Both schoolwide measures sit below peer medians, and Pell completion adds a further gap within the cohort.
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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