Admissions & selectivity
University of Akron Main Campus Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at University of Akron Main Campus?
University of Akron Main Campus’s reported acceptance rate is 59.7%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 59.7%
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
The University of Akron Main Campus admits 59.7% of applicants, a rate that sits well below the median of 85.9% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
What SAT and ACT scores do University of Akron Main Campus students report?
The middle half of enrolled students who submitted SAT scores fell between 900 and 1,190. For those who submitted ACT scores, the middle half ranged from 17 to 25.
These ranges describe the twenty-fifth to seventy-fifth percentiles of recent score submitters. They are not a minimum for admission or a profile of every enrolled student.
An applicant comparing their own results to the university's figures should look at the 900 to 1,190 SAT band and the 17 to 25 ACT band. The figures reflect the students who chose to submit scores, not a threshold.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at University of Akron Main Campus. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 900
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1190
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
- 17
- 75th percentile
- 25
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at University of Akron Main Campus?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 29.1%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 25.2%
- First-year retention
- 73.0%
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.
University of Akron Main Campus enrolls 9,052 undergraduates. 29.1% receive Pell Grants, and an estimated 25.2% entered as transfers or part-time students.
The student body includes people using federal grant aid and those continuing coursework begun elsewhere, rather than a campus defined by a single entry route. Pell-eligible applicants should use the net price calculator to estimate their own costs.
At University of Akron Main Campus, 73.0% of full-time students who start return for a second year, and 51.9% finish a bachelor's degree within six years. The peer median is the middle value for comparable institutions (same type and size).
Pell Grant recipients in the entering cohort complete at 36.3%, which is 15.6 percentage points below the overall rate. Enrolled students can expect graduation outcomes that track the peer medians, with a wider completion gap for Pell recipients.
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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