Admissions & selectivity
Keene State College Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Keene State College?
Keene State College’s reported acceptance rate is 90.3%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 90.3%
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.
Source: Keene State College Common Data Set 2025-26, C1 · first-time, first-year students.
How to interpret the acceptance rate
Keene State College admits a large share of applicants, with an admission rate of 90.3%. That is above the median of 85.9% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the college reported 6,269 first-year applicants, 5,631 admitted applicants, and 657 enrolled first-year students.
What SAT and ACT scores do enrolled Keene State College students report?
In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, Keene State College reported that 6% of its entering class submitted SAT scores. The middle half of those SAT submitters scored from 860 to 1240.
Most entering students did not submit SAT scores, so the SAT range describes a minority of the class.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Keene State College. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
6% of entering students submitted SAT scores
- 25th percentile
- 860
- Median
- 1050
- 75th percentile
- 1240
CDS 2025-26 · enrolled first-year score submitters. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Source: Keene State College Common Data Set 2025-26, C9 · Enrolled first-time, first-year score submitters.
Who enrolls at Keene State College?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 26.2%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 14.6%
- First-year retention
- 78.7%
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.
Keene State College has a modest undergraduate population that includes both Pell Grant recipients and people arriving through transfer routes. 26.2% of undergraduates receive Pell Grants, and an estimated 14.6% of the entering population comes from transfers; federal enrollment data list 2,699 undergraduates.
In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported 330 degree-seeking transfer applicants, 189 admitted, and 93 enrolled. The figures describe an undergraduate body with several entry paths rather than a single route into college.
Pell-eligible applicants should prepare financial-aid materials, and transfer applicants should assemble records from prior coursework before applying.
The available outcomes point to retention and completion above the peer medians, with Pell recipients completing at a higher rate than the overall cohort. In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported a 79% retention rate for the first-time, full-time fall 2024 entering class.
The federal first-year retention rate is 78.7%, above the peer median of 73.7% for comparable institutions. For the first-time full-time cohort, the six-year graduation rate is 60.1%, above the peer median of 49.1%.
Pell recipients have a 62.6% six-year completion rate, above the overall rate by 2.5 percentage points. Enrolled students can expect these measures to track returning after the first year and completing within six years.
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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