Admissions & selectivity
University of North Carolina at Pembroke Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at University of North Carolina at Pembroke?
University of North Carolina at Pembroke’s reported acceptance rate is 93.3%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 93.3%
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.
Source: University of North Carolina at Pembroke Common Data Set 2025-26, C1 · first-time, first-year students.
How to interpret the acceptance rate
The University of North Carolina at Pembroke admits 93.3% of applicants, a rate that sits above the median of 85.9% for comparable institutions (same type and size). In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported 8,526 first-year applicants and admitted 8,278, with 899 enrolling.
What SAT and ACT scores do University of North Carolina at Pembroke students report?
In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, University of North Carolina at Pembroke reported class-rank data for enrolled first-year students. Among those with a reported rank, 14% were at or above the ninetieth percentile of their high-school class.
32% were at or above the seventy-fifth percentile, and 70% were at or above the fiftieth percentile. Among enrolled students who submitted SAT scores, the middle half scored between 970 and 1,200.
The middle half of ACT submitters fell between 18 and 23. These ranges describe recent enrolled students who submitted scores, not admission minimums.
Prospective students can use the university's 970 to 1,200 SAT range and 18 to 23 ACT range as context for their own scores.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at University of North Carolina at Pembroke. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 970
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1200
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
- 18
- 75th percentile
- 23
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at University of North Carolina at Pembroke?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 50.1%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 52.6%
- First-year retention
- 71.6%
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 North Carolina at Pembroke is a public university that draws its undergraduates from two large streams: an estimated 52.6% arrive as transfers, and 50.1% receive Pell Grants. The enrollment of 5,330 undergraduates reflects a campus built around access rather than a single entry route.
In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported 8,526 first-year applicants, 8,278 admitted, and 899 enrolled. For transfer students, it reported 1,744 applicants, 1,693 admitted, and 929 enrolled.
The counts describe who enrolled in a given year, not any one applicant's likelihood of admission.
The first-time full-time cohort finishes at 43.5% within six years, below the peer median of 49.1% for comparable institutions (same type and size). At University of North Carolina at Pembroke, first-year retention is 71.6%, below the peer median of 73.7% for comparable institutions.
In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported that the first-time, full-time fall 2024 entering class returned at 72%. Pell recipients complete at 42.1%, below the overall rate by 1.4 percentage points.
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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