Admissions & selectivity
University of New Haven Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at University of New Haven?
University of New Haven’s reported acceptance rate is 60.4%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 60.4%
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 New Haven admits 60.4% of applicants, a rate that sits below the median of 71.2% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
What SAT and ACT scores do University of New Haven students report?
University of New Haven’s available score information offers a reference point for applicants considering how their SAT result compares with recent enrollees. Among enrolled students who submitted SAT scores, the middle half scored between 1,060 and 1,265, spanning the twenty-fifth through seventy-fifth percentiles.
This range describes submitted scores from enrolled students, rather than a minimum for admission or the scores of every enrollee. Applicants can place their own SAT result alongside the university’s 1,060 to 1,265 range when building an application list.
A score inside or outside that span does not settle an admission decision, but the figures show the central range among recent enrolled score submitters.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at University of New Haven. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 1060
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1265
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.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at University of New Haven?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 32.4%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 16.3%
- First-year retention
- 76.5%
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 Haven enrolls 4,841 undergraduates, with Pell Grant recipients making up 32.4% of that undergraduate population. An estimated 16.3% of undergraduates enter after beginning coursework elsewhere, so the campus includes both students starting college there and students continuing from another institution.
This composition points to more than one route into the undergraduate body, without describing admission priorities or an individual applicant’s odds.
Students at University of New Haven face retention and completion rates below the medians for comparable institutions, with a separate completion gap for Pell recipients. The first-year retention rate is 76.5%, below the peer median of 83.4% for comparable institutions.
Its six-year graduation rate for the first-time full-time cohort is 63.1%, also below the peer median of 68.8%. Pell recipients in that cohort have a 57.0% six-year completion rate, below the overall rate by 6.1 percentage points.
Enrolled students can expect that persistence through the first year and completion over six years are separate measures, and both sit below the comparable-institution medians here.
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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