Admissions & selectivity
Olivet Nazarene University Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Olivet Nazarene University?
Olivet Nazarene University’s reported acceptance rate is 55.9%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 55.9%
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
At 55.9%, Olivet Nazarene University admitted a little more than half of applicants in the reported entering-class pool. That rate is below the median of 71.2% for comparable institutions (same type and size), so its reported admissions outcome was less open than that peer midpoint.
What SAT and ACT scores do Olivet Nazarene University students report?
Olivet Nazarene University gives applicants a score reference point: among enrolled students who submitted SAT scores, the middle half scored from 950 to 1,220. That span describes the central portion of SAT submitters rather than an admission minimum.
Among enrolled ACT submitters, the middle half recorded scores from 19 to 26. Like the SAT range, this figure describes students who enrolled and submitted scores, not every person in the entering class.
Applicants should compare their own SAT score with 950 through 1,220. They should compare their ACT score with 19 through 26, using both ranges as context for recent enrolled submitters rather than as thresholds.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Olivet Nazarene University. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 950
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1220
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
- 26
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at Olivet Nazarene University?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 38.0%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 15.2%
- First-year retention
- 70.8%
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.
Federal grant aid is part of the undergraduate picture at Olivet Nazarene University, where 38.0% of undergraduates receive Pell Grants. The university has 2,603 undergraduates, and an estimated 15.2% arrive as transfers or part-time students rather than beginning in the first-year cohort.
That mix describes a campus attended by both Pell Grant recipients and people continuing studies started elsewhere; it does not describe admission priorities or any applicant’s likelihood of admission. The enrollment figures point to more than one route into this undergraduate community, with federal grant recipients forming a visible part of it.
Students should expect persistence and completion rates that sit below the medians for comparable institutions, with a further difference between Pell recipients and the overall cohort. The first-year retention rate for full-time bachelor’s-seeking entrants is 70.8%, below the peer median of 83.4% for comparable institutions with the same type and size.
The first-time full-time cohort has a 60.8% six-year graduation rate, also below its peer median of 68.8%. Pell recipients in that cohort have a 50.0% six-year completion rate, below the overall rate by 10.8 percentage points.
Enrolled students can expect these rates to describe the outcomes of earlier cohorts, rather than a forecast for any individual. Retention and completion both trail the peer medians, and Pell completion is lower than the overall completion 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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