Admissions & selectivity
Rider University Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Rider University?
Rider University’s reported acceptance rate is 78.6%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 78.6%
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
Rider University admitted 78.6% of applicants in the reported entering class, so the published rate describes an admissions outcome rather than an individual prediction. That rate is higher than the median of 71.2% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
What SAT and ACT scores do Rider University students report?
Rider University's enrolled students who submitted test scores show a middle range that helps an applicant see where recent score submitters fell, not a set of admission cutoffs. Among those who sent SAT results, the middle half scored from 1,100 to 1,320.
For ACT submitters, the corresponding range is 27 to 31. The figures describe only those submitters, not every enrolled student.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Rider University. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 1100
- 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
- 27
- 75th percentile
- 31
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at Rider University?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 34.7%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 25.0%
- First-year retention
- 78.4%
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.
At Rider University, federal grant aid and transfer entry are both visible parts of the undergraduate population. Pell Grants go to 34.7% of undergraduates, and the university's undergraduate enrollment is 3,106.
An estimated 25.0% of undergraduates enter as transfers or part-time students, indicating that attendance includes students arriving from prior college coursework as well as those beginning at the university. This is a private nonprofit university whose enrollment includes a material share of Pell Grant recipients and an estimated transfer segment.
The figures describe the makeup of enrolled undergraduates, not admission priorities.
Returning and completing measures at Rider University sit below the medians for comparable institutions. The university retains 78.4% of its full-time bachelor’s-seeking first-year students, a share that falls below the peer median of 83.4% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
The first-time full-time cohort posts a six-year graduation rate of 61.3%, which trails the peer median of 68.8%. For Pell recipients in this cohort, the six-year completion rate is 65.6%, above the overall rate by 4.3 percentage points.
Enrolled students can expect persistence and completion outcomes that remain below the medians for similar institutions, even though Pell recipients finish at a higher rate than the overall cohort.
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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