Admissions & selectivity
Texas Southern University Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Texas Southern University?
Texas Southern University’s reported acceptance rate is 96.9%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 96.9%
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
Texas Southern University admitted 96.9% of applicants in the reported entering class, so the published rate shows that admission was available to most applicants in that pool. That rate is above the median of 85.9% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
What SAT and ACT scores do Texas Southern University students report?
Submitted test scores at Texas Southern University describe the academic profile of enrolled students who chose to provide them; they are not admission minimums. The middle half of submitted SAT scores, from the twenty-fifth to the seventy-fifth percentile, runs from 800 to 1,000.
For ACT submitters, the corresponding middle-half range is 15 to 19. These ranges show where the central portion of score submitters fell within the enrolled class, not a cutoff for admission.
Applicants can compare their SAT score with the 800 to 1,000 range when deciding whether it adds useful context to an application. The ACT range offers a separate reference for applicants submitting that test.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Texas Southern University. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 800
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1000
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
- 15
- 75th percentile
- 19
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at Texas Southern University?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 72.3%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 26.7%
- First-year retention
- 66.2%
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.
Texas Southern University has a student body with substantial Pell Grant participation and a notable transfer presence. Pell Grant recipients account for 72.3% of undergraduates, a financial-access measure, and the estimated share of entrants outside the first-time, full-time group is 26.7%.
Undergraduate enrollment is 6,844 undergraduates. These figures suggest a campus serving many aid recipients alongside people continuing college work begun elsewhere.
Pell-eligible and transfer applicants should plan their application around aid documentation and prior coursework.
At Texas Southern University, completing within six years is a tougher hurdle than returning after the first year. Within the first-time full-time cohort, the six-year graduation rate is 22.2%, below the 49.1% peer median for comparable institutions (same type and size).
First-year retention stands at 66.2%, also below the comparable-institution median of 73.7%. Pell recipients in the cohort complete within six years at 26.9%, above the overall rate by 4.7 percentage points.
Enrolled students can expect retention to be more common than six-year completion, with both overall measures lower than peer medians.
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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