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# Xavier University Acceptance Rate & Admissions

Updated October 1, 2026

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## What is the acceptance rate at Xavier University?

Xavier University’s reported acceptance rate is 86.4%.

**Acceptance rate · Fall 2024**
86.4%

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

Xavier University admitted 86.4% of applicants, a higher share than the median of 71.2% for comparable institutions (same type and size). That comparison describes how the reported applicant pool turned out, rather than setting a standard for an individual application.

## What SAT and ACT scores do Xavier University students report?

Xavier University’s submitted-score profile offers context for applicants, rather than an admissions cutoff. Among enrolled SAT submitters, the middle half scored from 1,103 to 1,310.

That span covers the twenty-fifth through seventy-fifth percentiles of scores submitted by students who enrolled. For ACT submitters in the enrolled class, the middle half scored from 22 to 29.

This range also describes enrolled students who submitted scores, not every member of the class. Applicants should compare their results with Xavier University’s own SAT and ACT ranges as context for recent enrolled score submitters, rather than treat either range as a threshold.

The ranges describe part of the enrolled class’s academic profile and do not determine an individual admission decision.

The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Xavier University. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.

SAT: approximate enrolled-student range

**Approximate lower endpoint**
1103

**Approximate upper endpoint**
1310

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.

ACT: enrolled-student score range

**25th percentile**
22

**75th percentile**
29

Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.

Figures cover fall 2024.

## Who enrolls at Xavier University?

**Pell Grant recipients**
16.3%

**Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group**
20.6%

**First-year retention**
77.5%

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.

Xavier University enrolls 4,207 undergraduates, with an estimated 20.6% arriving as transfers or part-time students, so attendance includes both entrants beginning college there and people continuing prior coursework. Pell Grant recipients account for 16.3% of undergraduates, a financial-access measure rather than a description of every applicant’s circumstances.

The transfer estimate and Pell share point to an undergraduate body that enters through more than one route.

Xavier University’s six-year completion rate matches peers, but its first-year retention rate does not. Its first-year retention rate is 77.5%, below the peer median of 83.4% for comparable institutions (same type and size); this measure covers full-time bachelor’s-seeking first-year entrants who return.

The first-time full-time cohort has a 68.7% [six-year graduation rate](/analysis/what-the-graduation-rate-doesnt-count/), close to the peer median of 68.8% for comparable institutions (same type and size). Pell recipients in that cohort complete within six years at 58.2%, below the overall rate by 10.5 percentage points.

Enrolled students can expect peer-level six-year completion alongside lower first-year retention and lower Pell completion than the overall rate.

## Data & methodology

Sources and reporting periods: [methodology](/methodology/).

Analysis and methodology by [Daniel Rogers](/about/#founder), 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](/about/).