Admissions & selectivity
University of New Orleans Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at University of New Orleans?
University of New Orleans’s reported acceptance rate is 74.3%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 74.3%
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 Orleans admits 74.3% of applicants, a rate that is below the median of 85.9% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
What SAT and ACT scores do University of New Orleans students report?
Enrolled students who submitted SAT scores posted a middle range from 935 to 1,241. ACT submitters fell between 17 and 23.
Those bands mark the twenty-fifth and seventy-fifth percentiles of recent score submitters, not a floor for admission. An applicant can weigh their own numbers against the university's 935–1,241 SAT span and 17–23 ACT span to see where they sit among enrolled students who chose to send scores.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at University of New Orleans. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 935
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1241
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
- 23
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at University of New Orleans?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 39.1%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 34.8%
- First-year retention
- 66.8%
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.
The University of New Orleans is a public university in New Orleans, Louisiana, enrolling 4,638 undergraduates. 39.1% of undergraduates receive Pell Grants, and an estimated 34.8% enter as transfers or part-time students.
The student body is shaped by multiple entry points, with a substantial share arriving after starting coursework elsewhere. The university admits 74.3% of applicants, a rate that sits below the median of 85.9% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
Pell-eligible students can use the cost calculator to estimate their own grant-adjusted price.
Pell recipients at University of New Orleans complete at a rate of 45.8%, which is 7.8 percentage points above the overall six-year graduation rate for the first-time full-time cohort. The overall six-year graduation rate is 38.0%, below the peer median of 49.1% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
First-year retention sits at 66.8%, also below the peer median of 73.7%. The six-year graduation rate is 38.0%, below the peer median of 49.1%.
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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