Admissions & selectivity
Nazareth University Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Nazareth University?
Nazareth University’s reported acceptance rate is 74.7%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 74.7%
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
For applicants, Nazareth University’s 74.7% admission rate indicates that roughly three quarters of the reported entering-class applicant pool received offers. That rate is below the median of 75.7% for comparable institutions (same type and size), a modest difference in the reported outcomes for those applicant pools.
What SAT and ACT scores do Nazareth University students report?
At Nazareth University, submitted test scores provide a reference point for the academic profile of enrolled score submitters rather than an admission threshold. Applicants should use the university’s 1,070 to 1,320 SAT range as context when considering where their own results fall among recent enrolled submitters.
That SAT span covers the middle half of submitted scores, from the twenty-fifth through seventy-fifth percentiles, and does not represent every member of the entering class. For ACT submitters, the corresponding middle half ranged from 23 to 32.
These ranges describe enrolled students who chose to submit scores, so they are useful context rather than minimum scores for admission.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Nazareth University. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 1070
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1320
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
- 23
- 75th percentile
- 32
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at Nazareth University?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 26.3%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 16.2%
- First-year retention
- 84.8%
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.
Grant aid and transfer entry are both part of the undergraduate picture at Nazareth University. Pell Grants go to 26.3% of its undergraduates, a financial-access measure, and the estimated share of entrants outside the first-time, full-time group is 16.2%.
Federal enrollment data place undergraduate enrollment at 1,873. This mix suggests a campus that includes people receiving Pell support and people arriving after study elsewhere, alongside those who begin there.
These figures describe enrollment composition rather than admission priorities or any applicant's odds.
Students who enroll at Nazareth University see retention and completion figures above the middle values for comparable institutions, though completion among Pell recipients is lower than overall completion. For full-time bachelor’s-seeking first-year entrants, 84.8% return for a second year, compared with the peer median, the middle value for comparable institutions (same type and size), of 74.2%.
The first-time full-time cohort’s six-year graduation rate is 72.8%, above the peer median of 54.9%. Pell recipients in that cohort have a six-year completion rate of 63.5%, below the overall rate by 9.3 percentage points.
Enrolled students can expect progress to be tracked through retention and six-year completion measures, though neither rate predicts an individual path. The peer comparisons are favorable, but the lower Pell completion figure makes the completion picture uneven.
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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