Admissions & selectivity
Radford University Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Radford University?
Radford University’s reported acceptance rate is 89.5%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 89.5%
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: Radford University Common Data Set 2025-26, C1 · first-time, first-year students.
How to interpret the acceptance rate
Radford University admits 89.5% of applicants, close to the median of 85.9% for comparable institutions (same type and size). In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported 9,155 first-year applicants, 8,196 admitted students, and 1,408 who enrolled.
What SAT and ACT scores do enrolled Radford University students report?
In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported that enrolled first-year students who submitted SAT scores had a middle range from 950 to 1140. Only 11% of enrolled first-year students submitted SAT scores, so the range describes a small slice of the entering class.
Among enrolled first-year students with a reported class rank, 13% were in the highest tenth of their high-school class and 33% in the highest quarter. Applicants can use these figures as context for recent enrolled students, not as minimums for admission.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Radford University. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
11% of entering students submitted SAT scores
- 25th percentile
- 950
- Median
- 1040
- 75th percentile
- 1140
CDS 2025-26 · enrolled first-year score submitters. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Source: Radford University Common Data Set 2025-26, C9 · Enrolled first-time, first-year score submitters.
Who enrolls at Radford University?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 37.1%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 34.9%
- First-year retention
- 75.6%
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.
Radford University enrolls 6,038 undergraduates. The student body is built from more than one path: an estimated 34.9% of students arrive as transfers or part-time students, and 37.1% receive Pell Grants.
In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported 9,155 first-year applicants, 8,196 admitted, and 1,408 enrolled. For transfer students, it reported 1,515 applicants, 1,346 admitted, and 608 enrolled.
A student considering Radford University should know that transfer entry is a well-established route here, not an afterthought. Pell-eligible applicants can use the cost calculator to see their own estimated price, and transfer applicants should review the transfer credit information alongside their intended field.
Of full-time bachelor's-seeking entrants, 75.6% return for a second year, against a peer median of 73.7% for comparable institutions (same type and size). The six-year graduation rate for the first-time full-time cohort is 48.7%, just below the peer median of 49.1%.
Pell recipients in that cohort complete at 60.8%, which is 12.1 percentage points above the overall rate. Persistence runs slightly ahead of the peer median, and Pell students finish at a rate that exceeds the overall figure.
Enrolled students can expect a campus where the strongest outcome signal is the completion of those who start with federal grant aid.
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.