Admissions & selectivity
Quinnipiac University Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Quinnipiac University?
Quinnipiac University’s reported acceptance rate is 72.2%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 72.2%
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
Quinnipiac University admitted 72.2% of applicants, a rate slightly above the median of 71.2% for comparable institutions (same type and size). That rate summarizes admission decisions for the reported entering class and does not predict an individual decision.
What SAT and ACT scores do Quinnipiac University students report?
For enrolled score submitters at Quinnipiac University, the middle fifty percent of SAT results ran from 1,150 to 1,320. The corresponding ACT results ran from 25 to 30, giving a second view of the academic profile among people who submitted scores.
Neither range is an admission minimum, and neither describes every enrolled student; each covers the middle half of submitted results. Applicants weighing their own scores should place an SAT result against Quinnipiac University’s 1,150 to 1,320 range, or an ACT result against its 25 to 30 range.
Those comparisons offer context from recent enrolled score submitters, not a cutoff for admission.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Quinnipiac University. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 1150
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1320
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
- 25
- 75th percentile
- 30
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at Quinnipiac University?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 16.2%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 10.6%
- First-year retention
- 89.1%
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.
Quinnipiac University draws an undergraduate population that includes federal grant recipients and people arriving from prior colleges. Of its 6,531 undergraduates, 16.2% receive Pell Grants, a financial-access measure, and an estimated 10.6% enter as transfers or part-time students.
This mix suggests that attendance is not limited to a single path into the university: some undergraduates use Pell support, and some continue coursework begun elsewhere. Pell-eligible applicants and prospective transfers should use the cost calculator and review transfer information for their intended field before applying.
These figures describe the enrolled undergraduate population rather than admission priorities or any applicant’s likelihood of admission.
Quinnipiac University retains and graduates students at rates above those of the typical comparable institution. 89.1% of full-time bachelor’s-seeking first-year students return for a second year, above the peer median—the middle value for comparable institutions (same type and size)—of 83.4%.
The first-time full-time cohort has a six-year graduation rate of 75.7%, which also runs higher than the peer median of 68.8%. For Pell recipients, the six-year completion figure is 67.5%, a level that is 8.2 percentage points below the overall cohort rate.
Students who enroll should anticipate overall retention and completion levels above the middle value for comparable institutions, while noting that Pell recipients complete at a lower 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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