Admissions & selectivity
Stevens Institute of Technology Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Stevens?
Stevens’s reported acceptance rate is 47.6%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 47.6%
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
Stevens Institute of Technology admits 47.6% of applicants, a rate that sits well below the median of 71.2% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
What SAT and ACT scores do enrolled Stevens students report?
In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported an average high-school GPA of 3.83 among the 98.5% of enrolled first-year students who submitted a GPA. Among those who reported a class rank — 25% of the entering class — 48% finished in the highest tenth of their high-school class and 79% in the highest quarter.
For the 36% of enrolled students who submitted SAT scores, the middle half scored between 1370 and 1470. The 4% who submitted ACT scores had a middle-half range of 32 to 34.
These ranges describe the enrolled class, not minimum requirements, and the low ACT submitter share means that range reflects a small slice of the class. Applicants can use the 1370 and 1470 SAT figures as a benchmark for the academic profile of recent entering students who chose to submit scores.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Stevens. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
36% of entering students submitted SAT scores
- 25th percentile
- 1370
- Median
- 1420
- 75th percentile
- 1470
CDS 2025-26 · enrolled first-year score submitters. This range is not an admission cutoff.
4% of entering students submitted ACT scores
- 25th percentile
- 32
- Median
- 33
- 75th percentile
- 34
CDS 2025-26 · enrolled first-year score submitters. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Source: Stevens Institute of Technology Common Data Set 2025-26, C9 · Enrolled first-time, first-year score submitters.
Who enrolls at Stevens?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 20.4%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 4.4%
- First-year retention
- 93.6%
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.
Stevens Institute of Technology enrolls 4,222 undergraduates. 20.4% receive Pell Grants, and an estimated 4.4% enter as transfers or part-time students.
Most students start their degrees here rather than arriving from another institution. In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported an average high-school GPA of 3.83 among the 98.5% of enrolled first-year students who submitted a GPA.
Among the 25% who reported a class rank, 48% placed in the upper decile of their high-school class and 79% placed in the upper quartile.
Of full-time bachelor's-seeking students who start at Stevens, 93.6% return for a second year and 86.9% finish within six years. Both figures run above the peer medians of 83.4% and 68.8% for comparable institutions.
Pell recipients in the same first-time full-time cohort complete at 78.8%, which is 8.1 percentage points below the overall six-year rate. Enrolled students can expect persistence and completion rates that exceed the peer medians, with the understanding that Pell recipients complete at a lower rate than the cohort as a whole.
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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