Admissions & selectivity
Saint Cloud State University Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Saint Cloud State University?
Saint Cloud State University’s reported acceptance rate is 94.8%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 94.8%
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
Saint Cloud State University admits 94.8% of applicants, a rate that admits most who apply. The median of 85.9% for comparable institutions (same type and size) sits below that figure.
What SAT and ACT scores do Saint Cloud State University students report?
The middle half of enrolled students who submitted SAT scores fell between 1,025 and 1,260. For ACT submitters, the corresponding range is 17 to 25.
These ranges describe the performance of recent score submitters, not a minimum for admission. Applicants can use these figures as context for the scores of students who chose to submit them, rather than as a threshold.
A score within or above these ranges is typical among those who provided results, but the university admits the great majority of its applicants. The ranges reflect only the students who submitted scores, not the entire entering class.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Saint Cloud State University. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 1025
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1260
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
- 17
- 75th percentile
- 25
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at Saint Cloud State University?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 21.7%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 43.8%
- First-year retention
- 70.7%
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.
Saint Cloud State University enrolls 5,088 undergraduates, a student body shaped as much by transfer pathways as by first-year admission. An estimated 43.8% of undergraduates arrive as transfers or part-time students, and 21.7% receive Pell Grants.
The admission rate of 94.8% sits above the median of 85.9% for comparable institutions.
At Saint Cloud State University, Pell Grant recipients complete at a higher rate than the first-time, full-time cohort overall. The first-year retention rate for full-time, bachelor's-seeking students is 70.7%, below the 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 40.3%, which also trails the peer median of 49.1%. Pell Grant recipients in the same entering cohort complete at 45.8%, above the overall six-year rate by 5.5 percentage points.
Enrolled students can expect a university where the Pell completion figure exceeds the overall graduation rate, even as both retention and the overall six-year rate sit below peer medians.
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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