Admissions & selectivity
Pacific Oaks College Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Pacific Oaks College?
Pacific Oaks College’s reported acceptance rate is 34.4%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 34.4%
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
Pacific Oaks College admits 34.4% of applicants. The college's rate sits below the median of 75.7% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
What SAT and ACT scores do Pacific Oaks College students report?
SAT and ACT ranges are not available for Pacific Oaks College in the data shown here. Missing scores do not establish whether tests are required, optional or excluded from review.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at Pacific Oaks College?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 56.7%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- No federal data
- First-year retention
- No federal data
About these student measures
The entering-student group includes part-time entrants as well as other attendance patterns.
Pacific Oaks College is a small private nonprofit university in Pasadena, California, enrolling 312 undergraduates. It admits 34.4% of applicants, well below the median of 75.7% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
56.6% of undergraduates receive Pell Grants, so the campus draws heavily from students who use federal grant aid.
Pell recipients at Pacific Oaks College complete at 70.1% within six years. That figure counts students who entered as first-time, full-time freshmen and finished a credential within six years.
An enrolled student should understand that the available federal completion metric focuses specifically on Pell recipients. The peer medians offer useful context for where similar schools typically stand on retention and completion.
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.
Figure notes link to sources and limitations. About College Azimuth.