Admissions & selectivity
Westfield State University Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Westfield State University?
Westfield State University’s reported acceptance rate is 81.4%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 81.4%
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
Westfield State University admitted 81.4% of applicants in the reported entering class, describing a school-level admissions outcome rather than an individual prediction. The rate is below the median of 85.9% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
Applicants should use the published rate to place the university alongside schools with a range of admission outcomes when building an application list.
What SAT and ACT scores do Westfield State University students report?
SAT and ACT ranges are not available for Westfield State University in the data shown here. Missing scores do not establish whether tests are required, optional or excluded from review.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at Westfield State University?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 33.0%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 29.5%
- 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.
Westfield State University serves an undergraduate body in which Pell Grants reach 33.0% of undergraduates, placing federal grant aid within the campus’s financial-access picture. Undergraduate enrollment is 3,615, and an estimated 29.5% of the student body enters as transfers or part-time students rather than as first-time full-time entrants.
As a public university, the university’s composition includes both students receiving Pell Grants and those continuing coursework begun elsewhere.
Westfield State University posts a six-year graduation rate of 54.4% for the first-time full-time cohort, above the peer median of 49.1% for comparable institutions. Its 73.9% first-year retention rate for full-time bachelor’s-seeking first-year students is also above the peer median of 73.7%.
Pell recipients in the first-time full-time cohort complete within six years at 58.2%, above the overall rate by 3.8 percentage points. Enrolled students can expect retention close to the peer benchmark and completion above it.
The retention and completion figures point in the same direction, with Pell completion also exceeding the overall rate.
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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