Admissions & selectivity
Monmouth University Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Monmouth University?
Monmouth University’s reported acceptance rate is 89.0%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 89.0%
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
Monmouth University admitted 89.0% of applicants in the reported cycle, a rate that provides a broad entry point for applicants considering this private nonprofit university. The figure is above the median of 71.2% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
What SAT and ACT scores do Monmouth University students report?
Monmouth University’s reported score ranges give context for the academic profiles of enrolled applicants who submitted tests; they are not admission minimums. Among SAT submitters, the middle 50% of scores fell from 1,140 at the twenty-fifth percentile to 1,310 at the seventy-fifth percentile.
That range describes only enrolled students who provided SAT scores, not the full entering class. ACT submitters in the enrolled class had a middle 50% range from 24 to 29.
Like the SAT figures, those scores show where submitted results clustered among enrolled students and do not set a required score for admission. Applicants should place their results alongside 1,140 through 1,310 on the SAT and 24 through 29 on the ACT, using both ranges as context rather than cutoffs.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Monmouth University. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 1140
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1310
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
- 24
- 75th percentile
- 29
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at Monmouth University?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 30.4%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 18.6%
- First-year retention
- 79.9%
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.
Pell Grant recipients make up 30.4% of undergraduates at Monmouth University, indicating that federal grant aid is part of the enrollment picture. Undergraduate enrollment is 3,684, and an estimated 18.6% of attendees enter after beginning coursework elsewhere.
The mix points to a campus serving both students using Pell Grants and those arriving through transfer routes, rather than only a direct-entry population. These figures describe enrolled undergraduates and estimated transfer entry, not admission priorities or an individual applicant’s prospects.
Monmouth University shows a stronger peer comparison for finishing a degree than for returning after the first year. Among full-time bachelor’s-seeking first-year students, 79.9% return for a second year, below the peer median of 83.4%, the middle value for comparable institutions of the same type and size.
For the first-time full-time cohort, the six-year graduation rate reaches 71.9%; the comparable-institution midpoint is 68.8%, so completion is above that benchmark. Pell recipients in this cohort complete within six years at 72.3%, above the overall rate by 0.4 percentage points.
Enrolled students can expect completion to compare well with peers, even as first-year retention falls below the peer midpoint.
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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