Admissions & selectivity
The College of New Jersey Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at The College of New Jersey?
The College of New Jersey’s reported acceptance rate is 62.3%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 62.3%
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.
Source: The College of New Jersey Common Data Set 2024-25, C1 · first-time, first-year students.
How to interpret the acceptance rate
At The College of New Jersey, admission was granted to 62.3% of the reported applicant pool, so applicants should treat it as a school where preparation for the application matters. That rate is below the median of 85.9% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
In its 2024-25 Common Data Set, the university reported 12,766 first-year applicants and 7,959 admitted applicants.
What SAT and ACT scores do enrolled The College of New Jersey students report?
In its 2024-25 Common Data Set, The College of New Jersey reported that enrolled first-year students who submitted SATs had a middle half from 1140 to 1320. 39% of the entering class submitted SATs, so the range covers a minority of enrolled students.
The ACT middle half for enrolled submitters ran from 26 to 31, with a median of 28. Just 3% of enrolled students submitted ACTs, so that range reflects a small fraction of the class.
Applicants can weigh their SAT results against the university's 1140 to 1320 range, remembering that these figures describe recent enrolled submitters, not cutoffs for admission. Of enrolled first-year students with a reported class rank, 25% placed in the first tenth, 57% in the first quarter, and 92% in the first half.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at The College of New Jersey. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
39% of entering students submitted SAT scores
- 25th percentile
- 1140
- Median
- 1230
- 75th percentile
- 1320
CDS 2024-25 · enrolled first-year score submitters. This range is not an admission cutoff.
3% of entering students submitted ACT scores
- 25th percentile
- 26
- Median
- 28
- 75th percentile
- 31
CDS 2024-25 · enrolled first-year score submitters. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Source: The College of New Jersey Common Data Set 2024-25, C9 · Enrolled first-time, first-year score submitters.
Who enrolls at The College of New Jersey?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 21.0%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 17.8%
- First-year retention
- 91.3%
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.
The College of New Jersey serves a largely first-year undergraduate population while also enrolling transfer entrants and Pell Grant recipients. Pell Grant recipients account for 21.0% of undergraduates, and the estimated share of entrants outside the first-time, full-time group is 17.8%.
Federal enrollment data list 7,105 undergraduates, so these measures describe a campus with both direct-entry and transfer pathways. In its 2024-25 Common Data Set, the university reported 12,766 first-year applicants and 7,959 admitted applicants.
It also reported 1,060 degree-seeking transfer applicants, 718 admitted transfers, and 334 transfer students enrolled. The enrollment mix shows that applicants arrive through more than one college route.
Students who enroll at The College of New Jersey persist and complete at rates well above the norm for comparable institutions. The first-year retention rate is 91.3%, compared with a peer median of 73.7%.
The six-year graduation rate for the first-time full-time cohort is 85.9%, against a peer median of 49.1%. Pell Grant recipients in that same first-time full-time cohort complete at 75.2%, which is 10.7 percentage points below the overall rate.
An enrolled student can expect a campus where most classmates return and graduate within six years. The completion gap for Pell students is a dimension worth weighing alongside the overall figures.
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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