Admissions & selectivity
University of Central Arkansas Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at University of Central Arkansas?
University of Central Arkansas’s reported acceptance rate is 89.5%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 89.5%
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 Central Arkansas admits 89.5% of applicants, the median of 85.9% for comparable institutions (same type and size). The two figures are close, so the university is about as open as its reference group.
What SAT and ACT scores do University of Central Arkansas students report?
The middle half of enrolled students who submitted SAT scores scored between 910 and 1,170. For the ACT, the middle half of submitters scored from 19 to 25.
These are the twenty-fifth and seventy-fifth percentiles of recent score submitters, not admission cutoffs. An applicant can use the university's own 910 to 1,170 SAT range for context.
The 19 to 25 ACT range provides context for the scores of enrolled students who chose to report them.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at University of Central Arkansas. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 910
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1170
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
- 19
- 75th percentile
- 25
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at University of Central Arkansas?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 38.0%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 17.5%
- First-year retention
- 73.3%
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.
University of Central Arkansas is a public university in Conway, Arkansas, enrolling 7,762 undergraduates. 38.0% of them receive Pell Grants, and an estimated 17.5% enter as transfers or part-time students.
The student body draws from multiple entry points rather than a single traditional path. Pell-eligible applicants and transfer students both make up substantial parts of the undergraduate population.
Applicants who qualify for a Pell Grant should use the cost calculator to estimate their own grant-adjusted price.
The first-time full-time cohort graduates at a six-year rate of 53.5%, which is above the 49.1% median for comparable institutions (same type and size). First-year retention sits at 73.3%, close to the peer median of 73.7%.
Pell recipients in that cohort complete at 38.0%, 15.5 percentage points below the overall rate. A student arriving with a Pell Grant should plan for support that extends beyond the first year.
The six-year graduation rate runs ahead of the peer median, while retention sits slightly below it. The Pell completion rate lags the overall figure.
Graduation outcomes exceed those of comparable institutions, but the experience differs by financial background.
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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