Admissions & selectivity
Long Island University Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Long Island University?
Long Island University’s reported acceptance rate is 86.2%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 86.2%
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
Long Island University admitted 86.2% of applicants, a rate above the median of 71.2% for comparable institutions (same type and size). The rate summarizes outcomes for the reported applicant pool and does not describe an individual admission decision.
What SAT and ACT scores do Long Island University students report?
The reported score ranges describe the academic profile of enrolled students who submitted them, rather than standards every applicant must meet. They cover the middle half of submitted SAT and ACT scores, so they describe the enrolled class rather than a set of minimums.
Applicants should use Long Island University's 1,110 to 1,350 SAT range and 21 to 30 ACT range when considering how their academic preparation compares with recent score submitters. Scores are available only for enrolled students who chose to submit them, and the ranges do not describe all enrolled students.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Long Island University. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 1110
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1350
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
- 21
- 75th percentile
- 30
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at Long Island University?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 17.1%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 27.6%
- First-year retention
- 77.2%
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.
Transfer pathways are a noticeable part of the undergraduate mix at Long Island University, where an estimated 27.6% of undergraduates entered after starting elsewhere. The private nonprofit university enrolls 5,520 undergraduates, and 17.1% receive Pell Grants.
This mix describes a campus serving both students who begin there and those continuing from another college, with Pell Grants part of its undergraduate financial-access picture. Pell-eligible and transfer applicants should review aid materials and confirm how prior coursework applies before enrolling.
For students weighing those paths, grant eligibility and transfer status are relevant facts to check alongside admission information.
Students should expect persistence and completion figures that trail those at comparable institutions. For the first-time full-time cohort, 77.2% return for a second year, below the peer median of 83.4%.
The six-year graduation rate is 57.1%, also below the peer median of 68.8%. Pell recipients in that cohort complete within six years at 40.5%, below that overall rate by 16.6 percentage points.
Enrolled students can expect that most first-year students return, but completion is less common than at comparable institutions. The retention and graduation measures point in the same direction.
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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