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# Salisbury University Acceptance Rate & Admissions

Updated October 1, 2026

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## What is the acceptance rate at Salisbury University?

Salisbury University’s reported acceptance rate is 87.5%.

**Acceptance rate · Fall 2024**
87.5%

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.

First-year applicants and admitted students · CDS 2025-26

**Applicants**
8,793

**Admitted**
7,761

Source: Salisbury University Common Data Set 2025-26, C1 · first-time, first-year students.

How to interpret the acceptance rate

Salisbury University admits 87.5% 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 8,793 first-year applicants and 7,761 admitted applicants, with 1,441 enrolling.

## What SAT and ACT scores do enrolled Salisbury University students report?

In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported that the middle half of enrolled first-year students who submitted SAT scores scored between 1190 and 1300. Only 10% of enrolled students submitted SAT scores, so the range describes a small portion of the entering class.

ACT submitters were even fewer, at 2% of enrolled students. Applicants can use the university's own SAT range of 1190 through 1300 as context for recent score submitters, rather than as a minimum.

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

**10% of entering students submitted SAT scores**

SAT: reported composite scores

**25th percentile**
1190

**Median**
1230

**75th percentile**
1300

CDS 2025-26 · enrolled first-year score submitters. This range is not an admission cutoff.

Source: Salisbury University Common Data Set 2025-26, C9 · Enrolled first-time, first-year score submitters.

## Who enrolls at Salisbury University?

**Pell Grant recipients**
25.9%

**Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group**
25.8%

**First-year retention**
77.7%

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.

Salisbury University is a public university in Salisbury, Maryland, enrolling 6,057 undergraduates. The student body includes a Pell share of 25.9% and an estimated share of entrants outside the first-time, full-time group of 25.8%.

That means a substantial portion of students arrive from other institutions or use federal grant aid. In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported 8,793 first-year applicants, 7,761 admitted, and 1,441 enrolled. For transfer students, 1,218 applied, 880 were admitted, and 509 enrolled.

Students who start full time at Salisbury University tend to stay and finish. The [six-year graduation rate](/analysis/what-the-graduation-rate-doesnt-count/) is 68.2%, and the first-year retention rate is 77.7%.

Both figures exceed the medians for comparable institutions, where the median retention is 73.7% and the median completion is 49.1%. In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported a retention rate of 79% for the first-time, full-time fall 2024 entering class.

Pell recipients complete at 66.8%, 1.4 percentage points below the overall rate. Enrolled students can expect persistence and completion that run ahead of comparable institutions.

## 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/).