Admissions & selectivity
Pace University Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Pace University?
Pace University’s reported acceptance rate is 75.9%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 75.9%
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
Pace University admits 75.9% of applicants, a rate that sits above the median of 71.2% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
What SAT and ACT scores do Pace University students report?
Pace University's enrolled class brings together students with a broad array of test scores. Enrolled students who submitted SAT scores posted a middle-half range of 1,180 to 1,340, while those who submitted ACT scores landed between 24 and 29.
These figures show the distribution of scores among recent entering students who chose to submit them, not minimum admission requirements. Applicants can place their own SAT or ACT results alongside these specific ranges to see where they would fall among the undergraduate students who recently enrolled.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Pace University. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 1180
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1340
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
- 24
- 75th percentile
- 29
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at Pace University?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 27.3%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 21.1%
- First-year retention
- 75.5%
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.
Pace University enrolls 7,665 undergraduates, including 27.3% who receive Pell Grants and an estimated 21.1% who arrive as transfers or part-time students. That mix suggests a campus where federal grant aid helps finance attendance and where students are resuming undergraduate study after starting elsewhere.
This composition points to a university that draws from a range of financial and academic backgrounds rather than relying on a single traditional entry path. Students who expect to rely on Pell Grants or who plan to arrive with transfer credits should ask how the university supports enrollees who do not start as first-time freshmen.
Pace University's strongest is return on investment, and the completion figures shown here tell a mixed story. The first-year retention rate is 75.5%, below the midpoint of 83.4% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
The six-year graduation rate for the first-time full-time cohort is 60.0%, which also trails the midpoint of 68.8%. Pell Grant recipients complete at a rate of 48.7%, below the overall six-year rate by 11.3 percentage points.
While the overall graduation rate lags behind peers, the university's return pillar ranks in the 91st percentile nationally among nonprofit four-year institutions. The completion gap for Pell recipients and the below-peer graduation rate coexist with a return pillar that sits in the top decile.
Enrolled students can expect a university where persistence and completion rates sit below those of comparable institutions, but where the earnings payoff for graduates is substantial. The gap between the Pell completion rate and the overall rate is a concrete figure to weigh alongside the return data.
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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