Admissions & selectivity
Tulane University of Louisiana Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Tulane?
Tulane’s reported acceptance rate is 14.0%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 14.0%
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
Tulane University of Louisiana admitted 14.0% of applicants in the reported cycle, a rate that calls for a deliberate application-list decision. This sits below the median of 71.2% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
What SAT and ACT scores do Tulane students report?
Submitted scores provide context for recent enrollees at Tulane University of Louisiana, rather than a score applicants must meet for admission. Applicants should compare their results with the university's SAT range of 1,400 through 1,520 and ACT range of 31 through 34.
These ranges cover the central portion of scores from enrolled students who submitted each test, not all enrolled students. They are not minimums, and they do not describe how the university evaluates an individual application.
Used as context, the ranges show where reported scores fell among recent enrolled submitters.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Tulane. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 1400
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1520
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
- 31
- 75th percentile
- 34
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at Tulane?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 9.8%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 7.7%
- First-year retention
- 92.5%
Retention source: College Scorecard; full-time first-year retention.
About these student measures
These measures use different populations and reporting periods, rather than one current entering class. The entering-student group includes part-time entrants as well as other attendance patterns.
Tulane University of Louisiana enrolls an undergraduate population in which Pell Grant recipients and transfer entrants each form a limited share. Pell Grant recipients account for 9.8% of undergraduates, a financial-access measure, and the estimated share of entrants outside the first-time, full-time group is 7.7%.
Undergraduate enrollment totals 7,767 undergraduates. These figures suggest that most undergraduates enter through routes other than federal Pell Grant support or transfer enrollment, while both groups remain part of the campus population.
Pell-eligible applicants should use the cost calculator to estimate grant-adjusted costs, and transfer applicants should review transfer information for their intended field. The enrollment figures describe who attends rather than admission priorities or an individual applicant’s odds.
Tulane University of Louisiana posts retention and completion rates above the middle values for comparable institutions, although Pell recipients complete at a lower rate. The first-year retention rate for full-time bachelor’s-seeking first-year students is 92.5%, above the peer median of 83.4% for comparable institutions.
Its six-year graduation rate for the first-time full-time cohort is 86.1%, also above the peer median of 68.8%. Pell recipients in the first-time full-time cohort have a six-year completion rate of 51.5%, below the overall rate by 34.6 percentage points.
Enrolled students can use the program pages alongside these schoolwide outcomes when considering their course of study. Above-peer retention and graduation figures point in the same direction, while the Pell completion figure remains lower than the overall rate.
Data & methodology
A missing figure does not mean zero. 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.
Figure notes link to sources and limitations. About College Azimuth.