Admissions & selectivity
Marquette University Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Marquette University?
Marquette University’s reported acceptance rate is 81.3%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 81.3%
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.
How to interpret the acceptance rate
Marquette University admits 81.3% of applicants, a rate that sits above the median of 71.2% for comparable institutions (same type and size). Most who apply receive an offer.
What SAT and ACT scores do enrolled Marquette University students report?
In its 2024-25 Common Data Set, the university reported an average high-school GPA of 3.61 among enrolled first-year students, with 100.0% of the class reporting. Among those who submitted a class rank—18% of the entering class—32% finished in the highest tenth of their high school and 68% in the highest quarter.
For the SAT, the middle half of enrolled submitters scored between 1220 and 1350, though only 14% of the class sent scores. The ACT range was 26 to 31, with 26% of the class submitting.
These ranges describe the enrolled class, not minimum requirements. Applicants can use the 25th and 75th percentile figures for each test as a benchmark for the academic profile of recent entering students.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Marquette University. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
14% of entering students submitted SAT scores
- 25th percentile
- 1220
- Median
- 1280
- 75th percentile
- 1350
CDS 2024-25 · enrolled first-year score submitters. This range is not an admission cutoff.
26% of entering students submitted ACT scores
- 25th percentile
- 26
- Median
- 28
- 75th percentile
- 31
CDS 2024-25 · enrolled first-year score submitters. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Source: Marquette University Common Data Set 2024-25, C9 · Enrolled first-time, first-year score submitters.
Who enrolls at Marquette University?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 18.4%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 4.7%
- First-year retention
- 91.0%
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.
Marquette University enrolls 7,660 undergraduates, with 18.4% receiving Pell Grants. An estimated 4.7% of students enter as transfers or part-time students, so the campus is built largely around the first-time, full-time experience.
In its 2024-25 Common Data Set, the university reported 492 degree-seeking transfer applicants, 340 admitted, and 106 enrolled. The numbers describe the student body as it is composed, not how the university weighs applications.
Pell-eligible students can use the site's cost calculator to see an estimated grant-adjusted price, and transfer applicants should check how their credits line up with the program they want.
Marquette University records a first-year retention rate of 91.0% among first-time full-time students, a figure that sits above the peer median of 83.4% for comparable institutions. For the first-time full-time cohort, the six-year graduation rate reaches 83.2%, a level above the peer median of 68.8%.
Pell recipients in that same group complete at 76.7%, below the overall six-year rate by 6.5 percentage points. Enrolled students can expect strong overall persistence and completion relative to comparable institutions, with the understanding that Pell recipients complete at a lower rate than the cohort as a whole.
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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