Admissions & selectivity
Southwest Minnesota State University Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Southwest Minnesota State University?
Southwest Minnesota State University’s reported acceptance rate is 62.2%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 62.2%
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
For applicants, Southwest Minnesota State University admitted 62.2% of the reported entering-class applicant pool, so the rate describes a school where admission was less common than at its comparable institutions. The rate sits below the median of 85.9% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
What SAT and ACT scores do Southwest Minnesota State University students report?
The ACT profile at Southwest Minnesota State University places the middle half of enrolled score submitters between 16 and 23, offering a practical reference point rather than an admission threshold. That range runs from the twenty-fifth to the seventy-fifth percentile among enrolled students who submitted ACT scores.
It does not describe every enrolled student, and it is not a minimum score for admission. Applicants should compare their own ACT result with the university’s 16 through 23 range as context for recent enrolled submitters.
The figures show the academic range within the submitted ACT-score group, not an individual admission decision.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Southwest Minnesota State University. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- 25th percentile
- 16
- 75th percentile
- 23
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at Southwest Minnesota State University?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 12.1%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 58.9%
- First-year retention
- 73.7%
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.
At Southwest Minnesota State University, an estimated 58.9% of undergraduates arrive as transfers or part-time students, making prior college coursework a prominent part of the undergraduate mix. The public university enrolls 2,315 undergraduates, and 12.1% receive Pell Grants.
These figures describe a campus with both students using federal grant aid and many people continuing education begun elsewhere; they do not describe admission priorities. For applicants, the mix points to more than one common route into undergraduate study.
At Southwest Minnesota State University, 73.7% of full-time bachelor’s-seeking first-year students return, matching the peer median of 73.7% for comparable institutions. The first-time full-time cohort has a 45.1% six-year graduation rate, below the comparable-institution median of 49.1%.
Pell recipients in that cohort complete within six years at 41.7%, below the overall rate by 3.4 percentage points. Enrolled students can expect retention in line with comparable institutions, alongside a six-year completion rate below that comparison point.
The completion picture is therefore lower than peers overall and lower for Pell recipients than for the full 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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