Admissions & selectivity
Molloy University Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Molloy University?
Molloy University’s reported acceptance rate is 81.7%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 81.7%
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.
How to interpret the acceptance rate
Molloy University, a private nonprofit university in Rockville Centre, New York, admits 81.7% of applicants. That is above the median of 71.2% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
What SAT and ACT scores do Molloy University students report?
At Molloy University, submitted test scores offer a reference point for the academic profile of enrolled students, not a set of admission thresholds. For SAT submitters, the middle half of scores falls from 1,088 to 1,290.
Among enrolled ACT submitters, the corresponding middle half runs from 22 to 28. Both ranges describe students who enrolled and chose to submit scores.
Applicants can place an SAT result beside the school’s 1,088 to 1,290 range when considering their academic profile. An ACT result can likewise be considered against the 22 to 28 range, alongside the rest of the academic record.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Molloy University. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 1088
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1290
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
- 22
- 75th percentile
- 28
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at Molloy University?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 33.7%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 30.9%
- First-year retention
- 85.2%
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.
Molloy University enrolls 3,162 undergraduates. 33.7% of them receive Pell Grants, and an estimated 30.9% enter as transfers or part-time students.
The student body draws from federal grant aid and transfer pathways in roughly equal measure, so the campus is not defined by a single entry route. That composition means the university serves students who started elsewhere alongside those who began as first-year entrants.
Molloy University sees 85.2% of first-year students return for a second year, a figure that sits above the peer median of 83.4% for comparable institutions. The six-year graduation rate for the first-time full-time cohort reaches 69.9%, which also exceeds the peer median of 68.8%.
For Pell recipients in that cohort, the six-year completion rate is 66.4%, falling below the overall rate by 3.5 percentage points. Azimuth ranks the university #37 for return among nonprofit four-year institutions.
Students who enroll can expect most of their first-year peers to return and most of the entering class to earn a degree within six years.
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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