Admissions & selectivity
Kettering University Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Kettering University?
Kettering University’s reported acceptance rate is 78.7%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 78.7%
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
In the reported entering-class cycle, Kettering University admitted 78.7% of applicants, meaning that offers went to a majority of that applicant pool. The rate is above the median of 75.7% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
What SAT and ACT scores do Kettering University students report?
Enrolled students who submitted SAT scores posted a middle range of 1,160 to 1,330. For those who submitted ACT scores, the middle range ran from 26 to 30.
These figures mark the twenty-fifth and seventy-fifth percentiles of recent score submitters who enrolled. They are not a minimum for admission.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Kettering University. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 1160
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1330
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
- 26
- 75th percentile
- 30
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at Kettering University?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 17.0%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 9.9%
- First-year retention
- 94.3%
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.
Kettering University enrolls 1,205 undergraduates, with Pell Grant use and transfer entry both part of that picture. 17.0% of undergraduates receive Pell Grants, a financial-access measure, and the estimated share of entrants outside the first-time, full-time group is 9.9%.
These measures describe grant-aid participation and entrants arriving from earlier college coursework within the undergraduate body. The figures place both groups within the current enrollment without treating either as an admission category.
Kettering University keeps most first-year entrants enrolled, and its overall completion record is higher than the comparable-institution middle values. Among full-time bachelor's-seeking first-year entrants, 94.3% return for their second year; the peer median, the middle value for comparable institutions in the same type and size, is 74.2%.
For the first-time full-time cohort, 70.8% finish within six years, compared with 54.9% at comparable institutions. Pell recipients in that cohort have a six-year completion rate of 55.9%, below the overall rate by 14.9 percentage points.
Enrolled students can expect strong first-year continuation and overall completion above the comparable-institution median, with Pell-recipient completion reported separately.
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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