Admissions & selectivity
University of Southern Maine Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at University of Southern Maine?
University of Southern Maine’s reported acceptance rate is 79.2%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 79.2%
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
At University of Southern Maine, 79.2% of applicants to the reported entering class were admitted, indicating that admission offers reached a substantial share of that year's pool. The rate is below the median of 85.9% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
The admission rate describes the reported pool's outcome, rather than a forecast for an individual application.
What SAT and ACT scores do University of Southern Maine students report?
Applicants assessing the academic profile at University of Southern Maine can use its SAT range, 990 through 1,250, as one reference point for enrolled score submitters. The ACT range, 24 through 28, offers a separate reference point for applicants submitting that test.
These figures mark the middle half of scores among enrolled students who submitted each exam, rather than minimum scores for admission. They describe the submitted-score portion of the enrolled class, setting context for recent enrollees without establishing a threshold.
A score near either end remains within the published range, so the figures are best read as context rather than an admissions prediction.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at University of Southern Maine. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 990
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1250
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
- 24
- 75th percentile
- 28
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at University of Southern Maine?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 28.3%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 43.6%
- First-year retention
- 73.9%
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 Southern Maine has a substantial transfer presence alongside a Pell Grant population within its undergraduate body. Its undergraduate enrollment is 4,222 undergraduates, and 28.3% receive Pell Grants.
An estimated 43.6% share of entrants outside the first-time, full-time group points to a campus where many undergraduates arrive after beginning college elsewhere. The figures describe attendance through more than one entry route, with Pell-eligible undergraduates forming a visible part of the student body.
At University of Southern Maine, staying through the first year is much more common than finishing within six years. Among full-time bachelor's-seeking first-year students, 73.9% return, slightly above the peer median, the middle value for comparable institutions (same type and size), of 73.7%.
For the first-time full-time cohort, the six-year graduation rate is 40.4%, below the comparable-institution median of 49.1%. Pell recipients in that cohort have a 47.4% six-year completion rate, above the overall rate by 7.0 percentage points.
Enrolled students can expect first-year persistence near the peer midpoint, alongside a six-year completion rate that trails comparable institutions.
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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