Sacred Heart University Acceptance Rate & Admissions

Sacred Heart University admitted 65.4% of applicants in the reported entering-class cycle, a rate that describes the share admitted from that year’s applicant pool. This sits below the median of 71.2% for comparable institutions (same type and size).

Applicants should place Sacred Heart University on an application list after comparing their academic record with the university’s published admissions information and considering several school options.

Pell Grant recipients make up 15.8% of undergraduates at Sacred Heart University, a financial-access measure that identifies who receives this federal grant aid. Undergraduate enrollment is 7,087, and an estimated 6.6% enter as transfers or part-time students.

This is a private nonprofit university whose undergraduate population includes both aid recipients and people continuing coursework begun elsewhere, rather than only first-time entrants. These figures describe the undergraduate mix, not admission priorities or any applicant’s likelihood of admission.

For enrolled students, completion extends beyond the comparable-institution midpoint, while returning after the first year matches that benchmark. Pell recipients in the first-time full-time cohort complete within six years at 56.7%, below the overall rate by 16.8 percentage points.

Sacred Heart University posts a 73.5% six-year graduation rate for its first-time full-time cohort, compared with a 68.8% peer median for comparable institutions in the same type and size. Its 83.1% first-year retention rate for full-time bachelor’s-seeking entrants is close to the 83.4% peer median.

Enrolled students can expect completion to sit above the comparable benchmark, alongside first-year continuation that is close to it.