Admissions & selectivity
Suffolk University Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Suffolk University?
Suffolk University’s reported acceptance rate is 82.3%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 82.3%
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
Suffolk University has an admission rate of 82.3%, so its reported applicant-pool outcome is broader than the comparable-institution midpoint. That rate is above the median of 71.2% for comparable institutions (same type and size), without indicating any one applicant’s chance of admission.
What SAT and ACT scores do Suffolk University students report?
Suffolk University's enrolled students who submitted SAT scores posted a middle 50% range of 1,090 to 1,300. For those who submitted ACT scores, the middle half ran from 24 to 28.
These ranges describe the twenty-fifth through seventy-fifth percentiles of recent enrolled score submitters, not a minimum for admission. An applicant can place their own SAT score alongside Suffolk's 1,090 to 1,300 band.
For the ACT, the corresponding range is 24 to 28. The figures reflect the students who chose to submit scores, not a required threshold for entry.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Suffolk University. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 1090
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1300
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
- 24
- 75th percentile
- 28
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at Suffolk University?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 29.9%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 19.0%
- First-year retention
- 75.4%
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 Suffolk University, Pell Grant recipients and transfer entrants are both part of the undergraduate mix. The university enrolls 4,268 undergraduates, and 29.9% receive Pell Grants.
Its estimated share of entrants outside the first-time, full-time group is 19.0%, indicating that students continuing coursework begun elsewhere are represented in the enrollment. The mix gives prospective applicants a view of the routes represented at the university rather than a measure of admission priorities.
For Pell-eligible or transfer applicants, use the cost calculator for an aid-adjusted price estimate and consult the transfer information when considering how prior coursework may fit.
At Suffolk University, first-year continuation and six-year completion sit below peer medians, but Pell recipients complete above the overall cohort rate. First-year retention is 75.4%, below the peer median, the middle value for comparable institutions (same type and size), of 83.4%.
The first-time full-time cohort’s six-year graduation rate is 60.9%, below its peer median of 68.8%. Pell recipients in the first-time full-time cohort complete within six years at 62.3%, above the overall rate by 1.4 percentage points.
Enrolled students can expect progress through the first year and completion within six years to be reported as separate measures. The peer comparisons are lower on both measures, while Pell completion is above the overall rate.
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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