Admissions & selectivity
Jacksonville State University Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Jacksonville State University?
Jacksonville State University’s reported acceptance rate is 77.7%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 77.7%
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
Jacksonville State University admits 77.7% of applicants, a rate that sits below the median of 85.9% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
What SAT and ACT scores do enrolled Jacksonville State University students report?
In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported an average high-school GPA of 3.45 among the 85.2% of enrolled first-year students who submitted a GPA. For the 9% of the entering class that reported a class rank, 17% finished in the highest tenth of their high school and 38% in the highest quarter.
The middle half of enrolled students who submitted ACT scores earned between 17 and 24, and those submitters made up 43% of the entering class. Only 5% submitted SAT scores, with a middle range of 950 to 1210.
They describe the enrolled students who reported them, not a cutoff for admission.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Jacksonville State University. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
5% of entering students submitted SAT scores
- 25th percentile
- 950
- Median
- 1070
- 75th percentile
- 1210
CDS 2025-26 · enrolled first-year score submitters. This range is not an admission cutoff.
43% of entering students submitted ACT scores
- 25th percentile
- 17
- Median
- 20
- 75th percentile
- 24
CDS 2025-26 · enrolled first-year score submitters. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Source: Jacksonville State University Common Data Set 2025-26, C9 · Enrolled first-time, first-year score submitters.
Who enrolls at Jacksonville State University?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 42.6%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 23.9%
- First-year retention
- 64.6%
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.
At Jacksonville State University, 42.6% of undergraduates receive Pell Grants, a sign that financial access shapes much of the student profile. An estimated 23.9% arrive as transfers or part-time students, so the campus includes many students who are continuing coursework they began elsewhere.
In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported 1,267 degree-seeking transfer applicants, 792 admitted, and 500 enrolled. Overall undergraduate enrollment is 7,036 in federal counts, a total that includes both first-year students and transfers.
Full-time first-year students at Jacksonville State University return at 64.6%, a figure that falls below the peer median of 73.7% for comparable institutions. The first-time full-time cohort completes at 54.7% within six years, a rate that exceeds the peer median of 49.1%.
In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported 67% retention among the first-time, full-time fall 2024 entering class. For the first-time, full-time fall 2019 entering class, the university recorded a six-year graduation rate of 47.5%.
Pell recipients in the cohort finished at 41.0%, below the overall rate for that entering class. For Pell recipients in the federal first-time full-time group, the six-year completion rate is 44.5%, 10.2 percentage points below the overall rate.
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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