Admissions & selectivity
Northeastern State University Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Northeastern State University?
Northeastern State University’s reported acceptance rate is 99.6%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 99.6%
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 State University admits nearly every applicant. Its admission rate is 99.6%, well above the median of 85.9% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
What SAT and ACT scores do Northeastern State University students report?
Among enrolled students who submitted test scores, the middle 50% of SAT submitters scored between 866 and 1,136. For ACT submitters, the corresponding middle range is 18 to 23.
These ranges describe where the central half of recent score submitters landed, not a minimum for admission. Applicants can compare their own SAT scores to the 866–1,136 range and ACT scores to the 18–23 range to see how they align with enrolled students who submitted scores.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Northeastern State University. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 866
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1136
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
- 18
- 75th percentile
- 23
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at Northeastern State University?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 45.1%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 57.3%
- First-year retention
- 60.5%
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 State University is a public university in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, enrolling 4,772 undergraduates. The student body draws from more than one path: 45.1% receive Pell Grants, and an estimated 57.3% arrive as transfers or part-time students. The figures describe who attends, not how the university evaluates files.
First-year retention and six-year graduation both trail the peer medians for comparable institutions (same type and size). 60.5% of first-time full-time students return for a second year, against a peer median of 73.7%.
35.4% finish within six years, against a peer median of 49.1%. Pell recipients in the same entering cohort complete at 44.8%, which is 9.4 percentage points above the overall six-year rate.
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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