Admissions & selectivity
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences?
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences’s reported acceptance rate is 85.2%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 85.2%
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
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences admits 85.2% of applicants, a rate that sits above the median of 71.2% for comparable institutions (same type and size). The admission rate sits above the peer median.
What SAT and ACT scores do Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences students report?
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences enrolls 3,451 undergraduates. Among enrolled students who submitted scores, the middle 50% of SAT scores ranged from 1,160 to 1,416.
The middle 50% of ACT scores ranged from 26 to 30. These ranges describe the twenty-fifth through seventy-fifth percentiles of recent enrolled submitters, not every enrolled student or a minimum for admission.
An applicant can place their own score against the university's 1,160 to 1,416 SAT range and 26 to 30 ACT range. That provides one point of context, rather than a threshold.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 1160
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1416
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 Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 30.1%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 36.4%
- First-year retention
- 74.0%
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.
30.1% of undergraduates at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences receive Pell Grants. The campus enrolls 3,451 undergraduates in total.
An estimated 36.4% of those students arrive as transfers or part-time students. This mix means the student body includes recent high-school graduates, students who have already attended another college, and students who receive federal grant aid.
The campus therefore brings together students who entered directly from high school and students who transferred in with prior credits. Pell-eligible and transfer applicants should both review the program pages for field-specific cost estimates and transfer-credit policies for their intended field.
Of full-time bachelor’s-seeking first-year students at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, 74.0% return for a second year. Of first-time full-time students, 62.0% finish within six years.
Both figures sit below the medians for comparable institutions, where retention runs 83.4% and the six-year rate is 68.8%. Pell Grant recipients in the first-time full-time cohort complete at 70.4%, which is 8.4 percentage points above the overall six-year rate.
Prospective students can compare the six-year completion rate for Pell recipients, 70.4%, with the overall six-year rate to understand outcomes at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences.
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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