Admissions & selectivity
Marist University Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Marist University?
Marist University’s reported acceptance rate is 56.5%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 56.5%
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
Marist University admitted 56.5% of applicants, so more than half of the reported applicant pool received admission offers. That rate is below the median of 71.2% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
What SAT and ACT scores do Marist University students report?
Marist University’s score ranges describe the academic results of enrolled people who chose to submit tests, not thresholds for admission. For SAT submitters, the middle half ran from 1,190 to 1,340; these endpoints mark the lower and upper quarters of that submitted-score group.
ACT submitters had a middle-half range from 25 to 31, again representing enrolled submitters rather than every new student. Scores alone do not describe the full entering class.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Marist University. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 1190
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1340
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
- 25
- 75th percentile
- 31
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at Marist University?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 14.4%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 8.8%
- First-year retention
- 86.1%
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.
Marist University has a predominantly direct-entry undergraduate population, with a smaller estimated transfer presence alongside a modest Pell Grant share. The private nonprofit university enrolls 5,182 undergraduates.
Pell Grant recipients account for 14.4% of undergraduates, a financial-access measure, and an estimated 8.8% of undergraduates entered as transfers or part-time students. This composition suggests that most undergraduates begin their college path at Marist, with transfer students and Pell recipients each forming distinct parts of the campus population.
Pell-eligible and transfer applicants should review the university's aid and transfer-credit information alongside their own academic plans before applying.
At Marist University, the first-time full-time cohort returns at a rate of 86.1% after the first year, and 79.6% finish within six years. Both figures sit above the medians for comparable institutions, which are 83.4% for retention and 68.8% for completion.
Pell Grant recipients in that cohort complete at 74.9%, which is 4.7 percentage points below the overall six-year rate. For a student who enrolls full-time, the data describes a place where most people persist and graduate.
The completion figure for Pell recipients is a separate number worth weighing alongside 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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