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# Morgan State University Acceptance Rate & Admissions

Updated October 1, 2026

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## What is the acceptance rate at Morgan State University?

Morgan State University’s reported acceptance rate is 82.2%.

**Acceptance rate · Fall 2024**
82.2%

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

Morgan State University admitted 82.2% of its reported applicant pool, a rate that is below the median of 85.9% for comparable institutions (same type and size).

## What SAT and ACT scores do Morgan State University students report?

Morgan State University’s submitted-score profile offers context for recent enrolled score submitters, not admission thresholds. Applicants should compare an SAT result with the university’s own 840 through 1,070 range, which covers the middle half of enrolled students who submitted SAT scores.

Applicants submitting ACT scores should use the university’s 16 through 21 range as the corresponding reference for enrolled ACT submitters. These ranges do not represent every enrolled student because they describe only those who submitted scores.

Read together, the SAT and ACT spans give a school-specific view of recent score submissions rather than minimums for admission.

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

SAT: approximate enrolled-student range

**Approximate lower endpoint**
840

**Approximate upper endpoint**
1070

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.

ACT: enrolled-student score range

**25th percentile**
16

**75th percentile**
21

Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.

Figures cover fall 2024.

## Who enrolls at Morgan State University?

**Pell Grant recipients**
56.6%

**Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group**
13.6%

**First-year retention**
73.3%

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.

Morgan State University’s undergraduate body includes a substantial share receiving Pell Grants, pointing to a campus with many students using federal grant aid. 56.5% of undergraduates receive Pell Grants, and undergraduate enrollment is 9,019.

The estimated share of entrants outside the first-time, full-time group is 13.6%, so the student body also includes people continuing coursework begun elsewhere. These figures describe enrollment composition rather than admission priorities or any applicant’s odds.

Morgan State University shows near-peer first-year persistence, but completion within six years trails the comparable-institution benchmark. Among full-time bachelor’s-seeking first-year students, 73.3% return for a second year, below a peer median of 73.7% for comparable institutions (same type and size).

For the first-time full-time cohort, 40.9% complete within six years, below the comparable-institution median of 49.1%. Pell recipients have a six-year completion rate of 44.3%, above the overall rate by 3.4 percentage points.

Enrolled students can expect returning after the first year to be more common than completing within six years, based on these cohort measures.

## 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/).