Admissions & selectivity
University of St Francis Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at University of St Francis?
University of St Francis’s reported acceptance rate is 65.3%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 65.3%
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
University of St Francis is a private nonprofit university that admits 65.3% of applicants. For context, the median admission rate among comparable institutions (same type and size) is 75.7%.
What SAT and ACT scores do University of St Francis students report?
The middle 50% of enrolled students who submitted SAT scores earned between 1,030 and 1,220. For those who submitted ACT scores, the middle 50% ranged from 20 to 32.
These ranges describe recent enrolled students who provided scores, not every enrolled student or a minimum for admission. Applicants can use this school's own 1,030 to 1,220 SAT range and 20 to 32 ACT range as context for the profile of recent score submitters.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at University of St Francis. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 1030
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1220
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
- 32
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at University of St Francis?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 39.3%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 45.1%
- First-year retention
- 78.8%
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.
University of St Francis enrolls 1,223 undergraduates, and nearly half of them, an estimated 45.1%, arrive as transfers or part-time students. 39.3% receive Pell Grants.
The admission rate is 65.3%, below the median of 75.7% for comparable institutions (same type and size). Applicants who are Pell-eligible or transferring from another institution should review the cost calculator and the transfer information alongside their intended field.
The six-year graduation rate for first-time full-time students is 66.8%, compared with a median of 54.9% for comparable institutions. First-year retention is 78.8%, also above the median for comparable institutions of 74.2%.
Pell recipients in the same entering cohort complete at 61.5%, which is 5.3 percentage points below the overall rate. Enrolled students can expect a campus where completion runs ahead of the norm for similar schools, and where Pell students finish within a few points of their classmates.
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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