Admissions & selectivity
Oklahoma State University-Main Campus Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Oklahoma State University-Main Campus?
Oklahoma State University-Main Campus’s reported acceptance rate is 75.0%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 75.0%
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.
Source: Oklahoma State University-Main Campus Common Data Set 2025-26, C1 · first-time, first-year students.
How to interpret the acceptance rate
Oklahoma State University-Main Campus admitted 75.0% of applicants in the reported cohort, so admission was available to about three quarters of those who applied. That rate was below the median of 78.1% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported 28,024 first-year applicants, 20,646 admitted, and 5,160 enrolled.
What SAT and ACT scores do Oklahoma State University-Main Campus students report?
In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, Oklahoma State University-Main Campus reported class rank data for first-year students with a reported rank. Among those students, 29% were in the highest tenth, 55% in the highest quarter, and 83% in the highest half.
Applicants comparing their scores with recent submitters should use the SAT range of 1,040 to 1,250 and the ACT range of 20 to 27. These are the middle half of scores for enrolled students who submitted them, rather than minimum requirements.
The class-rank figures describe only students who reported a rank, so they offer context alongside the submitted-score ranges.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Oklahoma State University-Main Campus. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 1040
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1250
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
- 20
- 75th percentile
- 27
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at Oklahoma State University-Main Campus?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 28.0%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 25.2%
- 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.
Oklahoma State University-Main Campus has a sizable undergraduate population that includes Pell Grant recipients and students arriving from other colleges. It enrolls 21,773 undergraduates; 28.0% receive Pell Grants, and an estimated 25.2% enter as transfers or part-time students.
That composition includes students using federal grant aid and students continuing coursework begun elsewhere. In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported 28,024 first-year applicants, 20,646 admitted applicants, and 5,160 enrolled first-year students. For transfers, 4,997 applied, 2,606 were admitted, and 1,635 enrolled.
For enrolled students, the continuation picture runs ahead of comparable institutions on both broad measures, although Pell recipients complete at a lower rate than the full cohort. The first-time full-time cohort’s six-year graduation rate reaches 68.2%, above the peer median of 65.0% for comparable institutions.
First-year retention is 84.8%, also above the comparable-institution median of 83.1%. In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported that 82% of the first-time, full-time fall 2024 entering class returned the next fall.
Pell recipients’ six-year completion rate is 54.4%, below the overall rate by 13.8 percentage points. Enrolled students can expect retention and overall completion to compare favorably with the peer medians, with a separate completion gap 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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