Admissions & selectivity
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Virginia Tech?
Virginia Tech’s reported acceptance rate is 54.8%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 54.8%
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
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University admitted 54.8% of applicants in the reported entering class, a rate below the median of 78.1% for comparable institutions (same type and size). In practical terms, the reported outcome shows that admission was granted to a little more than half of that year’s applicant pool.
What SAT and ACT scores do Virginia Tech students report?
Applicants considering Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University can use the SAT range from 1,280 to 1,450 as a reference point for the academic profile of enrolled score submitters. The span covers the middle half of submitted SAT scores, rather than a minimum required for admission.
For enrolled students who submitted ACT scores, the middle half fell between 28 and 32. Like the SAT figures, this range describes the scores within the enrolled group that chose to submit them, not a cutoff or an individual admission prediction.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Virginia Tech. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 1280
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1450
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
- 28
- 75th percentile
- 32
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at Virginia Tech?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 15.3%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 12.8%
- First-year retention
- 93.1%
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.
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University enrolls 30,923 undergraduates, with Pell Grant recipients accounting for 15.3% of the undergraduate population. The university also has an estimated 12.8% share of entrants outside the first-time, full-time group, so its undergraduate body includes both students entering directly and students continuing work begun elsewhere.
These figures describe a large public university with a measurable Pell-eligible presence and a continuing path for transfer entrants, rather than a campus made up solely of first-time students. Pell-eligible and transfer applicants should use the university’s published aid and transfer-credit information to plan their application route and expected costs.
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University shows stronger continuation and degree completion than comparable institutions overall. Among full-time bachelor’s-seeking first-year students, 93.1% returned for a second year, above the peer median, the middle value for comparable institutions (same type and size), of 83.1%.
Degree completion also runs ahead: 86.2% of the first-time full-time cohort finished within six years, compared with 65.0% at the peer median. Pell recipients completed within six years at 79.2%, below the overall rate by 7.0 percentage points.
Enrolled students can expect overall persistence and completion figures that exceed comparable-institution medians, alongside a lower completion rate for 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.
Admission rates describe past applicants, not an individual’s chance of admission; confirm requirements and deadlines with the institution.
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