Admissions & selectivity
Youngstown State University Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Youngstown State University?
Youngstown State University’s reported acceptance rate is 84.5%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 84.5%
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
Youngstown State University admits 84.5% of applicants, a rate that sits just below the median of 85.9% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
What SAT and ACT scores do Youngstown State University students report?
The middle half of enrolled students who submitted SAT scores fell between 1,010 and 1,230. On the ACT, the corresponding range was 19 to 25.
These are the twenty-fifth and seventy-fifth percentiles of recent score submitters, not minimums for admission. They describe the students who enrolled, not every applicant.
An applicant can use 1,010 and 1,230 on the SAT, or 19 and 25 on the ACT, as a reference point against the scores of recent enrolled submitters.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Youngstown State University. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 1010
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1230
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
- 19
- 75th percentile
- 25
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at Youngstown State University?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 33.8%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 33.4%
- First-year retention
- 75.7%
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.
Youngstown State University enrolls 7,961 undergraduates. 33.8% receive Pell Grants.
An estimated 33.4% arrive as transfers or part-time students, so many students began their degrees at other colleges. That means a large share of the student body began coursework elsewhere.
The campus draws from both groups in similar measure. Neither group dominates the enrollment profile.
Instead, the composition points to a university that accommodates students arriving from multiple starting points and financial situations. Pell-eligible and transfer applicants should estimate their net price by income band and review how prior credits apply to their intended program.
Of full-time bachelor's-seeking first-year students, 75.7% return for a second year and 50.5% complete a degree within six years. The peer medians for comparable institutions are 73.7% and 49.1%, so both measures run slightly ahead of the middle of the pack.
The six-year completion rate for Pell recipients is 35.1%, which sits 15.4 percentage points below the overall rate. The gap is a fact about outcomes, not an explanation of them.
Students who enroll can expect persistence and completion that edge past the peer group, though the experience differs between Pell recipients and the cohort as a whole.
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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