Admissions & selectivity
University of Northwestern-St Paul Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at University of Northwestern-St Paul?
University of Northwestern-St Paul’s reported acceptance rate is 93.5%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 93.5%
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
University of Northwestern-St Paul admitted a broad share of its reported applicant pool, with an admission rate of 93.5%. That rate is above the median of 75.7% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
What SAT and ACT scores do University of Northwestern-St Paul students report?
The submitted test profile at University of Northwestern-St Paul spans a broad range, offering context rather than admission thresholds. Applicants can compare an SAT result with the school’s 868 to 1,271 range for enrolled students who submitted that test.
They can also compare an ACT result with the 20 to 28 range for enrolled ACT submitters. Each range covers the middle half of submitted scores, from the twenty-fifth through seventy-fifth percentiles.
These figures describe enrolled students who submitted scores, not every enrolled student, and they are not minimum scores for admission.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at University of Northwestern-St Paul. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 868
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1271
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
- 20
- 75th percentile
- 28
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at University of Northwestern-St Paul?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 15.7%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 17.6%
- First-year retention
- 82.9%
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 Northwestern-St Paul brings together undergraduates using federal grant aid and people arriving from prior college work, with neither route defining the whole campus. Federal enrollment data list 1,442 undergraduates, and 15.7% receive Pell Grants.
The estimated share of entrants outside the first-time, full-time group is 17.6%, so transfers are a visible part of the undergraduate composition alongside first-time entrants. The mix points to a campus serving both aid recipients and students continuing study begun elsewhere.
University of Northwestern-St Paul shows above-peer persistence through both the first year and six-year completion. Among full-time bachelor’s-seeking first-year students, the first-year retention rate is 82.9%, compared with a peer median of 74.2% for comparable institutions of the same type and size.
For the first-time full-time cohort, the six-year graduation rate is 68.1%, versus 54.9% at peer institutions. Pell recipients in the first-time full-time cohort complete within six years at 64.4%, below the overall rate by 3.7 percentage points.
Enrolled students can expect retention and overall completion measures above the peer references, alongside lower completion among 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.
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