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Florida Atlantic acceptance rate

Florida Atlantic University · Boca Raton, Florida · Public · 23,757 undergraduates

66.1%
accepted, fall 2024
31,511
applications
20,838
offers of admission
4,232
enrolled (20% of those admitted)

Applications more than doubled between 2014 and 2024, reaching 31,511. Women applying for fall 2024 had better odds than men: 68% were admitted, against 63% of men. Florida Gulf Coast University is the hardest to get into among the six schools closest to Florida Atlantic in size and selectivity (63%); California State Polytechnic University, Pomona is the easiest (75%).

Acceptance rate since 2001

0%25%50%75%100%2001200320052007200920112013201520172019202120242001 71%2002 69%2003 72%2004 65%2005 55%2006 54%2007 57%2008 49%2009 46%2010 51%2011 35%2012 42%2013 48%2014 66%2015 68%2016 60%2017 60%2018 59%2019 63%2020 75%2021 78%2022 81%2023 73%2024 66%
Share of first-time, first-year applicants offered admission, by fall term.
Show the numbers by year
FallAppliedAdmittedRateEnrolled
202431,51120,83866.1%4,232
202327,61220,27973.4%4,417
202224,26819,73481.3%4,371
202125,14819,61778.0%3,925
202025,30018,91974.8%4,252
201918,85411,93063.3%3,283
201817,12010,15659.3%3,163
201715,1769,10760.0%2,791
201615,9079,50959.8%3,191
201515,84710,72567.7%3,474
201414,9449,86766.0%3,060
201324,88911,88047.7%3,479
201225,72610,87342.3%3,237
201128,1979,80534.8%3,347
201014,4427,32550.7%2,613
200914,5326,74546.4%2,632
200813,1506,38848.6%2,776
200711,8226,69856.7%2,677
200611,3036,10654.0%2,312
200511,6986,39654.7%2,478
20049,1986,02365.5%2,455
20038,2025,91572.1%2,440
20027,2835,02168.9%2,348
20016,2894,49571.5%2,258

Applications and offers

010k20k30k40k20012004200720102013201620192024AppliedAdmitted2001 Applied: 6k Admitted: 4k2002 Applied: 7k Admitted: 5k2003 Applied: 8k Admitted: 6k2004 Applied: 9k Admitted: 6k2005 Applied: 12k Admitted: 6k2006 Applied: 11k Admitted: 6k2007 Applied: 12k Admitted: 7k2008 Applied: 13k Admitted: 6k2009 Applied: 15k Admitted: 7k2010 Applied: 14k Admitted: 7k2011 Applied: 28k Admitted: 10k2012 Applied: 26k Admitted: 11k2013 Applied: 25k Admitted: 12k2014 Applied: 15k Admitted: 10k2015 Applied: 16k Admitted: 11k2016 Applied: 16k Admitted: 10k2017 Applied: 15k Admitted: 9k2018 Applied: 17k Admitted: 10k2019 Applied: 19k Admitted: 12k2020 Applied: 25k Admitted: 19k2021 Applied: 25k Admitted: 20k2022 Applied: 24k Admitted: 20k2023 Applied: 28k Admitted: 20k2024 Applied: 32k Admitted: 21k
First-year applications received and offers made, by fall term.

Acceptance rate for women and men

Fall 2024AppliedAdmittedRate
Women19,27613,12868.1%
Men12,2357,71063.0%

SAT, ACT and test policy

Test scores in admission
Required
SAT reading and writing
530 to 610 (middle 50% of enrolled students)
SAT math
510 to 590
ACT composite
21 to 26

Colleges similar to Florida Atlantic

The six public four-year colleges closest to Florida Atlantic in acceptance rate and undergraduate enrollment.

CollegeAcceptance rateUndergraduatesAvg net priceEarnings after 10 yrs
The University of Texas at Dallas
Richardson, TX		65%21,751$15,271$74,762
Florida Gulf Coast University
Fort Myers, FL		63%13,874$11,555$59,401
Middle Tennessee State University
Murfreesboro, TN		69%16,301$12,562$52,702
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Pomona, CA		75%25,042$9,404$77,464
University of North Georgia
Dahlonega, GA		68%16,146$14,185$55,822
University of California, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA		66%17,940$18,549$73,362

Admissions counts are first-time, first-year applicants reported by Florida Atlantic to IPEDS for each fall term (2001 to 2024), read from the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Test score ranges and policy come from the College Scorecard. College Scorecard data updated November 2, 2026. How these figures are built · Florida Atlantic on College Scorecard