Admissions & selectivity
Worcester State University Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Worcester State University?
Worcester State University’s reported acceptance rate is 88.0%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 88.0%
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
Worcester State University admits 88.0% of applicants, a rate that sits above the median of 85.9% for comparable institutions (same type and size). The figure summarizes the reported outcome across that applicant pool, rather than setting an individual applicant’s odds.
What SAT and ACT scores do Worcester State University students report?
The middle half of enrolled students who submitted SAT scores scored between 1,026 and 1,283. These ranges describe the spread of recent score submitters, not a minimum for admission.
Applicants can use Worcester State University's own 1,026 to 1,283 range as context for how their scores compare with those of enrolled students who chose to submit them. The figures describe the middle 50% of submitted scores, not every enrolled student.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Worcester State University. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 1026
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1283
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.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at Worcester State University?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 30.0%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 29.5%
- First-year retention
- 78.1%
Retention source: College Scorecard; full-time first-year retention.
About these student measures
These measures use different populations and reporting periods, rather than one current entering class. The entering-student group includes part-time entrants as well as other attendance patterns.
Worcester State University draws undergraduates through both direct entry and transfer routes, with federal grant aid part of that mix. Pell Grant recipients account for 30.0% of undergraduates, a financial-access measure based on the share receiving Pell Grants.
An estimated 29.5% of undergraduates enter as transfers or part-time students rather than beginning there as first-time full-time entrants. The university enrolls 3,930 undergraduates.
Pell-eligible and transfer applicants should use the cost calculator to build a grant-adjusted cost estimate before comparing options. These shares give context for two common routes into the university.
For full-time bachelor’s-seeking first-year students, Worcester State University has a 78.1% retention rate, above its comparable-institution midpoint. That rate exceeds the peer median, the middle value for comparable institutions (same type and size), of 73.7%.
The first-time full-time cohort has a 61.5% six-year graduation rate, above the peer median of 49.1%. Pell recipients in that cohort have a 31.1% six-year completion rate, below the overall rate by 30.4 percentage points.
Enrolled students can expect these published rates to summarize prior cohorts rather than set an individual timetable. Retention and overall graduation exceed their peer medians, but Pell completion is lower than overall completion.
Data & methodology
A missing figure does not mean zero. 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.
Figure notes link to sources and limitations. About College Azimuth.