Admissions & selectivity
University of New Hampshire-Main Campus Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at University of New Hampshire-Main Campus?
University of New Hampshire-Main Campus’s reported acceptance rate is 88.2%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 88.2%
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
University of New Hampshire-Main Campus admitted 88.2% of applicants to its reported entering class, meaning admission was offered to a large share of that year’s applicant pool. That rate stands above the median of 78.1% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
The rate is a school-level outcome, not a prediction for an individual application.
What SAT and ACT scores do University of New Hampshire-Main Campus students report?
The submitted-score profile offers a reference point for applicants, not an admission cutoff. For enrolled students who submitted scores, the middle 1,090 to 1,330 range marks the central half of SAT results, and the corresponding ACT range runs from 26 to 30.
These are ranges for enrolled score submitters, so they do not set minimum scores for admission. The figures show the academic profile of recent score submitters rather than a required threshold.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at University of New Hampshire-Main Campus. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 1090
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1330
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
- 26
- 75th percentile
- 30
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at University of New Hampshire-Main Campus?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 18.1%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 14.0%
- First-year retention
- 87.3%
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 New Hampshire-Main Campus enrolls 11,261 undergraduates, with entry points that include both first-time and transfer pathways. Pell Grant recipients account for 18.1% of undergraduates, a financial-access measure showing the share receiving those grants.
An estimated 14.0% of the undergraduate population entered as transfers or part-time students, so the campus includes students arriving after beginning college elsewhere. This mix suggests an undergraduate body with varied routes into a four-year degree, rather than a campus made up solely of first-time entrants.
Pell-eligible and transfer applicants should compare the university’s aid information and transfer-credit policies with their own plans before applying.
Students who enroll encounter retention and completion rates that sit above the peer medians, though Pell recipients complete at a lower rate than the overall cohort. The first-year retention rate is 87.3%, compared with a peer median of 83.1% for comparable institutions.
For the first-time full-time cohort, the six-year graduation rate is 76.1%, versus a peer median of 65.0%. Pell recipients in that cohort have a six-year completion rate of 67.2%, below the overall rate by 8.9 percentage points.
Enrolled students can expect most first-year students to return and a six-year completion rate above the comparable-institution median, alongside a separate completion picture 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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