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# Massachusetts Maritime Academy Acceptance Rate & Admissions

Updated October 1, 2026

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## What is the acceptance rate at Massachusetts Maritime Academy?

Massachusetts Maritime Academy’s reported acceptance rate is 94.7%.

**Acceptance rate · Fall 2024**
94.7%

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.

First-year applicants and admitted students · CDS 2025-26

**Applicants**
1,329

**Admitted**
1,223

Source: Massachusetts Maritime Academy Common Data Set 2025-26, C1 · first-time, first-year students.

How to interpret the acceptance rate

Massachusetts Maritime Academy admits 94.7% of applicants. The median for comparable institutions (same type and size) is 83.4%, so the academy's rate sits above that benchmark.

In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported 1,329 first-year applicants and 1,223 admitted applicants, with 433 enrolling.

## What SAT and ACT scores do Massachusetts Maritime Academy students report?

SAT and ACT ranges are not available for Massachusetts Maritime Academy in the data shown here. Missing scores do not establish whether tests are required, optional or excluded from review.

Figures cover fall 2024.

## Who enrolls at Massachusetts Maritime Academy?

**Pell Grant recipients**
19.0%

**Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group**
8.2%

**First-year retention**
86.8%

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.

In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported counts of 48 transfer applicants, 48 admitted, and 36 enrolled. Undergraduate enrollment at Massachusetts Maritime Academy stands at 1,395.

19.0% of students receive Pell Grants. That share measures financial access through federal grant receipt and should not be read as a poverty rate or low-income census.

An estimated 8.2% arrive as transfers or part-time students. The composition suggests a student body drawn largely from applicants who enter directly and do not receive Pell Grants.

Transfer applicants and students eligible for Pell Grants should examine the program pages to see how their background aligns with the university's enrollment pattern.

Students who start full time at Massachusetts Maritime Academy tend to stay. 86.8% return for a second year, well above the 73.4% median for comparable institutions.

The [six-year graduation rate](/analysis/what-the-graduation-rate-doesnt-count/) is 74.1%, which also exceeds the peer median of 43.5%. In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported a retention rate of 85% for the first-time, full-time fall 2024 entering class.

For the first-time, full-time fall 2019 entering class, the six-year graduation rate was 73.5%, and Pell recipients in that cohort completed at 78.3%. Pell recipients complete at 72.4%, 1.7 percentage points below the overall rate.

Enrolled students can expect persistence and completion that exceed what is typical for similar institutions.

## Data & methodology

Sources and reporting periods: [methodology](/methodology/).

Analysis and methodology by [Daniel Rogers](/about/#founder), 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.

Figure notes link to sources and limitations. [About College Azimuth](/about/).