Admissions & selectivity
Northeastern Illinois University Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Northeastern Illinois University?
Northeastern Illinois University’s reported acceptance rate is 74.6%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 74.6%
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
Northeastern Illinois University admitted 74.6% of applicants, a rate below the median of 85.9% for comparable institutions (same type and size). The lower rate is a useful comparison point, but it does not determine any one applicant’s result.
What SAT and ACT scores do Northeastern Illinois University students report?
SAT and ACT ranges are not available for Northeastern Illinois University in the data shown here. Missing scores do not establish whether tests are required, optional or excluded from review.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at Northeastern Illinois University?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 55.7%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 57.3%
- First-year retention
- 52.3%
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.
Northeastern Illinois University serves an undergraduate body that includes many Pell Grant recipients and many students who began their college path elsewhere. Pell Grant recipients make up 55.7% of undergraduates, a financial-access measure based on receipt of Pell Grants.
Undergraduate enrollment is 3,982, and an estimated 57.3% of undergraduates enter as transfers or part-time students. This composition suggests a campus with substantial representation from both aid recipients and transfer entrants.
Pell-eligible and transfer applicants should use the site’s cost calculator and program pages to consider their own plans.
Persistence and completion sit below the peer medians, although Pell recipients in the first-time full-time cohort complete at a higher rate than the overall cohort. The first-year retention rate, the share of full-time bachelor’s-seeking first-year students who return, is 52.3%, below the peer median of 73.7% for comparable institutions.
The six-year graduation rate for the first-time full-time cohort is 21.6%, below the peer median of 49.1%. Pell recipients complete within six years at 46.9%, above the overall rate by 25.3 percentage points.
Enrolled students can expect lower overall persistence and completion than at comparable institutions.
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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