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# Indiana University-Southeast Acceptance Rate & Admissions

Updated October 1, 2026

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## What is the acceptance rate at Indiana University-Southeast?

Indiana University-Southeast’s reported acceptance rate is 84.5%.

**Acceptance rate · Fall 2024**
84.5%

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-Southeast admitted 84.5% of applicants to its reported entering class. The figure describes the share admitted from that applicant pool, rather than a promise about an individual application.

Its admission rate is below the median of 85.9% for comparable institutions (same type and size).

## What SAT and ACT scores do Indiana University-Southeast students report?

Score-submitting members of the enrolled class show a broad academic profile, rather than a set of admission cutoffs. Applicants with SAT results can compare them with the school’s own range of 970 through 1,180.

The middle half of enrolled students who submitted SAT scores fell within that span, so it describes reported results rather than a minimum for admission. For the ACT, the corresponding range for enrolled score submitters was 20 to 25.

These test ranges apply separately to students who submitted each exam and offer context for recent enrolled score submitters.

The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Indiana University-Southeast. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.

SAT: approximate enrolled-student range

**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.

ACT: enrolled-student score range

**25th percentile**
20

**75th percentile**
25

Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.

Figures cover fall 2024.

## Who enrolls at Indiana University-Southeast?

**Pell Grant recipients**
32.3%

**Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group**
34.1%

**First-year retention**
63.8%

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-Southeast has a student body shaped by both Pell Grant recipients and transfer entrants. Pell Grant recipients account for 32.3% of undergraduates, a financial-access measure based on undergraduates receiving those grants.

The university enrolls 3,170 undergraduates, and an estimated 34.1% entered as transfers or part-time students. That mix points to an undergraduate population with more than one route into the university.

At Indiana University-Southeast, both first-year continuation and six-year completion sit below the middle results at comparable institutions. The first-year retention rate is 63.8%, below the peer median of 73.7%, the middle value for comparable institutions (same type and size).

Its [six-year graduation rate](/analysis/what-the-graduation-rate-doesnt-count/) for the first-time full-time cohort is 39.2%, below the comparable-institution median of 49.1%. Pell recipients in that cohort complete within six years at 31.9%, below the overall rate by 7.3 percentage points.

Enrolled students can expect that returning after the first year and finishing within six years are less common here than at comparable institutions. The retention and completion figures point in the same direction.

## Data & methodology

Sources and reporting periods: [methodology](/methodology/).

Analysis and methodology by [Daniel Rogers](/about/#founder), 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.

Figure notes link to sources and limitations. [About College Azimuth](/about/).