Admissions & selectivity
Northwest Missouri State University Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Northwest Missouri State University?
Northwest Missouri State University’s reported acceptance rate is 86.1%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 86.1%
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
Northwest Missouri State University admitted 86.1% of applicants in the reported entering class, a rate close to the median of 85.9% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
What SAT and ACT scores do Northwest Missouri State University students report?
Among enrolled students who submitted SAT scores, the middle half scored between 976 and 1,193. For those who submitted ACT scores, the middle range ran from 19 to 24.
These ranges describe the scores of recent enrolled students who chose to report them, not a cutoff for admission. They do not represent the full entering class.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Northwest Missouri State University. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 976
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1193
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
- 19
- 75th percentile
- 24
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at Northwest Missouri State University?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 27.3%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 24.3%
- First-year retention
- 73.9%
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.
Northwest Missouri State University draws undergraduates through both direct entry and transfer routes. Federal enrollment data show 4,378 undergraduates; 27.3% receive Pell Grants, a financial-access measure, and an estimated 24.3% entered as transfers or part-time students.
The composition includes grant-aided undergraduates alongside people continuing coursework begun elsewhere, rather than a single route into the university.
Students who return for a second year do so at a rate near the peer figure, while six-year completion stands above its peer comparison. The first-year retention rate is 73.9%, compared with a peer median of 73.7% for comparable institutions of the same type and size.
For the first-time full-time cohort, the six-year graduation rate is 54.2%, above the peer median of 49.1%. Pell recipients in that cohort complete within six years at 47.1%, below the overall rate by 7.1 percentage points.
Enrolled students can expect retention near the peer benchmark and completion above it, with a lower completion figure for Pell recipients.
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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