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# Milwaukee School of Engineering Acceptance Rate & Admissions

Updated October 1, 2026

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## What is the acceptance rate at Milwaukee School of Engineering?

Milwaukee School of Engineering’s reported acceptance rate is 58.9%.

**Acceptance rate · Fall 2024**
58.9%

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**
5,020

**Admitted**
3,369

Source: Milwaukee School of Engineering Common Data Set 2025-26, C1 · first-time, first-year students.

How to interpret the acceptance rate

Milwaukee School of Engineering admitted 58.9% of its reported applicant pool, below the median of 71.2% for comparable institutions (same type and size). In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported 5,020 first-year applicants, 3,369 admitted applicants, and 744 enrolled students.

## What SAT and ACT scores do enrolled Milwaukee School of Engineering students report?

In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, Milwaukee School of Engineering reported that 20% of its entering class submitted ACT scores. The middle half of those ACT submitters scored from 24 to 30.

Among the 11% who submitted SAT scores, the middle half scored from 1205 to 1375. More of the entering class submitted ACT scores than SAT scores, and most entering students submitted neither test, so both ranges describe a minority of the class.

The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Milwaukee School of Engineering. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.

**11% of entering students submitted SAT scores**

SAT: reported composite scores

**25th percentile**
1205

**Median**
1310

**75th percentile**
1375

CDS 2025-26 · enrolled first-year score submitters. This range is not an admission cutoff.

**20% of entering students submitted ACT scores**

ACT: reported composite scores

**25th percentile**
24

**Median**
28

**75th percentile**
30

CDS 2025-26 · enrolled first-year score submitters. This range is not an admission cutoff.

Source: Milwaukee School of Engineering Common Data Set 2025-26, C9 · Enrolled first-time, first-year score submitters.

## Who enrolls at Milwaukee School of Engineering?

**Pell Grant recipients**
24.2%

**Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group**
16.4%

**First-year retention**
83.8%

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.

The undergraduate body includes Pell Grant recipients and a visible transfer pathway. Federal data list 2,654 undergraduates: 24.2% receive Pell Grants, and an estimated 16.4% are transfer-in students.

The composition suggests that the university serves people arriving through both first-year and prior-college routes. In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported 477 degree-seeking transfer applicants; 246 were admitted and 100 enrolled.

Completion is the weaker of the two main persistence measures. For the first-time full-time cohort, the [six-year graduation rate](/analysis/what-the-graduation-rate-doesnt-count/) is 67.1%, below the peer median of 68.8% for comparable institutions (same type and size).

Pell recipients in that cohort complete within six years at 62.5%, below the overall rate by 4.6 percentage points. First-year retention is 83.8%, above the peer median of 83.4% for comparable institutions (same type and size).

In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported that 86% of the first-time, full-time fall 2024 entering class were retained to the next fall. Enrolled students can expect the published measures to track first-year return and six-year completion separately.

The federal picture is uneven: retention sits above peers, while completion does not.

## 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/).