Admissions & selectivity
Syracuse University Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Syracuse University?
Syracuse University’s reported acceptance rate is 45.9%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 45.9%
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
Syracuse University admits 45.9% of applicants, a rate well below the median of 47.1% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
What SAT and ACT scores do Syracuse University students report?
The middle 50% of SAT scores submitted by enrolled students at Syracuse University fell between 1,270 and 1,440. The middle 50% of ACT scores submitted by enrolled students fell between 29 and 32.
These ranges describe the score distribution of recent entering students who chose to submit them, not a set of minimum admission requirements. Applicants deciding whether to submit scores can weigh their own results against those SAT and ACT ranges, which capture the academic profile of recent entering students.
Because the numbers describe the enrolled class rather than a cutoff, they give a practical sense of where recent students scored without suggesting that scores outside the bands are unwelcome.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Syracuse University. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 1270
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1440
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
- 29
- 75th percentile
- 32
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at Syracuse University?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 17.1%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 8.8%
- First-year retention
- 90.1%
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.
Syracuse University enrolls 15,477 undergraduates. 17.1% receive Pell Grants, and an estimated 8.8% arrive as transfers or part-time students.
The student body is predominantly first-time, full-time entrants, with a small transfer presence. The composition suggests a campus where most students begin together as freshmen.
Syracuse University retains and graduates its first-time full-time students at rates that sit well above the peer medians for comparable institutions (same type and size). The first-year retention rate is 90.1%, compared with a peer median of 90.1%.
The six-year graduation rate for the first-time full-time cohort is 83.6%, while the peer median stands at 80.0%. Pell Grant recipients in that cohort complete at a rate of 76.1%, which is below the overall six-year rate by 7.5 percentage points.
Enrolled students can expect a university where the large majority of first-year students return, and where graduation outcomes for the first-time full-time cohort outpace those of comparable institutions.
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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