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# Johns Hopkins University Acceptance Rate & Admissions

Updated October 1, 2026

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## What is the acceptance rate at Johns Hopkins?

Johns Hopkins’s reported acceptance rate is 6.4%.

**Acceptance rate · Fall 2024**
6.4%

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.

First-year applicants and admitted students · CDS 2025-26

**Applicants**
50,259

**Admitted**
3,072

Source: Johns Hopkins University Common Data Set 2025-26, C1 · first-time, first-year students.

How to interpret the acceptance rate

Johns Hopkins University admitted 6.4% of applicants in the most recent cycle, below the median of 71.2% for comparable institutions (same type and size). In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported 50,259 applicants, 3,072 admitted students, and 1,378 enrolled first-year students.

## What SAT and ACT scores do enrolled Johns Hopkins students report?

In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported a middle fifty percent range for enrolled first-year students who submitted SAT scores. That range was 1530 to 1565, with 57% of the class submitting.

For the ACT, the middle 50% range was 35 to 35, submitted by 20% of enrolled students. Among enrolled first-year students with a reported class rank, 100% were in the upper tenth of their high school class and 100% in the upper quarter.

Applicants with SAT scores from 1530 to 1565 or ACT scores from 35 to 35 are aligning with the profile of recently enrolled students who chose to submit results.

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

**57% of entering students submitted SAT scores**

SAT: reported composite scores

**25th percentile**
1530

**Median**
1550

**75th percentile**
1565

CDS 2025-26 · enrolled first-year score submitters. This range is not an admission cutoff.

**20% of entering students submitted ACT scores**

ACT: reported composite scores

**25th percentile**
35

**Median**
35

**75th percentile**
35

CDS 2025-26 · enrolled first-year score submitters. This range is not an admission cutoff.

Source: Johns Hopkins University Common Data Set 2025-26, C9 · Enrolled first-time, first-year score submitters.

## Who enrolls at Johns Hopkins?

**Pell Grant recipients**
19.5%

**Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group**
4.7%

**First-year retention**
98.1%

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.

Johns Hopkins University is a private nonprofit university in Baltimore, Maryland, with 5,693 undergraduates. Pell Grant recipients make up 19.5% of undergraduates, and an estimated 4.7% of students enter as transfers or part-time students.

In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported 50,259 first-year applicants, 3,072 admitted, and 1,378 enrolled. For transfer applicants, it reported 2,468 applicants, 119 admitted, and 59 enrolled.

The undergraduate body is predominantly first-time, full-time students, with a modest share of Pell recipients and a small transfer presence. Pell-eligible applicants should present a strong academic record aligned with the university's profile, while transfer applicants should note the small number of admitted students relative to the applicant pool.

Pell Grant recipients at Johns Hopkins University complete at 91.7%, a figure that trails the overall [six-year graduation rate](/analysis/what-the-graduation-rate-doesnt-count/) of 93.8% by 2.1 percentage points. The overall rate runs well ahead of the peer median of 68.8% for comparable institutions.

The university retains 98.1% of its first-time, full-time students into a second year, far above the peer median of 83.4%. In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported a retention rate of 98% for the first-time, full-time fall 2024 entering class.

Enrolled students can expect a university where nearly all first-year students persist and graduation rates outpace those of comparable institutions, with Pell completion only slightly behind the overall figure.

## 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/).