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# Roosevelt University Acceptance Rate & Admissions

Updated October 1, 2026

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## What is the acceptance rate at Roosevelt University?

Roosevelt University’s reported acceptance rate is 97.2%.

**Acceptance rate · Fall 2024**
97.2%

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

With an admission rate of 97.2%, Roosevelt University admitted nearly all applicants in the reported entering-class cycle, pointing to broad access in its published admissions outcome. That rate stands above the median of 71.2% for comparable institutions (same type and size).

## What SAT and ACT scores do Roosevelt University students report?

Roosevelt University's score profile offers a reference for recent enrolled score submitters, rather than a set of admission thresholds. Among SAT submitters, the middle fifty percent of scores ranged from 895 to 1,175, covering the twenty-fifth through seventy-fifth percentiles.

The corresponding ACT range for enrolled submitters was 18 to 26. These ranges do not describe every member of the entering class, and they are not minimums for admission.

Applicants should compare their own SAT result with the university's 895 to 1,175 range or their ACT result with its 18 to 26 range when deciding where to apply.

The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Roosevelt University. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.

SAT: approximate enrolled-student range

**Approximate lower endpoint**
895

**Approximate upper endpoint**
1175

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.

ACT: enrolled-student score range

**25th percentile**
18

**75th percentile**
26

Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.

Figures cover fall 2024.

## Who enrolls at Roosevelt University?

**Pell Grant recipients**
51.3%

**Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group**
42.8%

**First-year retention**
61.6%

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.

Roosevelt University serves an undergraduate body in which federal grant aid and transfer entry are both common. Of 2,849 undergraduates, 51.3% receive Pell Grants, a financial-access measure, and an estimated 42.8% entered as transfers or part-time students.

This mix points to a campus whose undergraduates arrive through more than one route and includes many Pell Grant recipients. These figures describe enrollment composition rather than admission priorities or any applicant's likelihood of admission.

At Roosevelt University, staying enrolled and completing within six years are less common than at comparable institutions. The first-year retention rate is 61.6%, below the peer median of 83.4% for comparable institutions (same type and size); the peer median is the middle value for that group.

The [six-year graduation rate](/analysis/what-the-graduation-rate-doesnt-count/) for the first-time full-time cohort is 35.1%, below the peer median of 68.8%. Pell recipients in that cohort have a 40.3% six-year completion rate, above the overall rate by 5.2 percentage points.

Enrolled students can expect these rates to describe cohort outcomes, rather than an individual path. Retention and graduation both sit below peer medians, while Pell recipients complete above the overall rate.

## Data & methodology

Sources and reporting periods: [methodology](/methodology/).

Analysis and methodology by [Daniel Rogers](/about/#founder), 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](/about/).