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# Truman State University Acceptance Rate & Admissions

Updated October 1, 2026

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## What is the acceptance rate at Truman State University?

Truman State University’s reported acceptance rate is 83.8%.

**Acceptance rate · Fall 2024**
83.8%

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

At Truman State University, the reported entering-class admission rate was 83.8%, indicating the share of that year’s applicants who received admission offers. It falls below the median of 85.9% for comparable institutions (same type and size).

## What SAT and ACT scores do Truman State University students report?

Submitted scores at Truman State University give context for the academic profile of enrolled score submitters, not admission thresholds. The middle half of SAT scores submitted by enrolled students falls between the lower and upper quarter points, and the same description applies to ACT submissions.

Applicants should compare their own SAT score with Truman State University's 1,170 through 1,370 range and their ACT score with its 25 through 31 range. These figures describe the middle fifty percent of enrolled students who submitted each test, rather than every enrolled student or a minimum score for admission. Scores outside either range do not by themselves settle an admission decision.

The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Truman State University. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.

SAT: approximate enrolled-student range

**Approximate lower endpoint**
1170

**Approximate upper endpoint**
1370

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.

ACT: enrolled-student score range

**25th percentile**
25

**75th percentile**
31

Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.

Figures cover fall 2024.

## Who enrolls at Truman State University?

**Pell Grant recipients**
16.5%

**Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group**
11.0%

**First-year retention**
84.7%

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.

Truman State University has an undergraduate body that includes Pell Grant recipients and people continuing coursework begun elsewhere. Of 2,513 undergraduates, 16.5% receive Pell Grants, a measure of federal grant access, and an estimated 11.0% entered as transfers or part-time students.

Those figures describe a campus with both direct entrants and transfer pathways, rather than a single route into undergraduate study. The enrollment mix describes who attends, not admission priorities or any individual applicant’s odds.

Completion stands out at Truman State University. 68.5% of the first-time full-time cohort graduates within six years.

The peer median, the middle value for comparable institutions (same type and size), is 49.1%. The first-year retention rate for full-time bachelor’s-seeking entrants is 84.7%, versus a peer median of 73.7%.

Within that first-time full-time cohort, Pell recipients have a six-year completion rate of 62.0%, which is below the overall rate by 6.5 percentage points. Enrolled students can expect published measures that follow both the return after the first year and completion within six years.

Retention and overall completion sit above their peer medians, though Pell completion remains lower than the overall rate.

## Data & methodology

Sources and reporting periods: [methodology](/methodology/).

Analysis and methodology by [Daniel Rogers](/about/#founder), 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.

Figure notes link to sources and limitations. [About College Azimuth](/about/).