Centre College's admit rate has fallen 25.6 percentage points across the 12 reported years on file.
The headline numbers, drawn from CDS sections A–H.
Per-cycle Common Data Set values. Enrolled is first-year matriculants (CDS B1), not total undergraduate population. Blank cells mean the field was not published in that year's source CDS.
| Year | Admit rate | Enrolled | 6-yr grad | Retention | SAT (50th) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-2026 | 48.2% | 357 | 80.5% | 89.0% | 1,285 |
| 2022-2023 | 62.4% | 394 | 86.8% | 89.0% | — |
| 2019-2020 | 76.4% | 355 | 84.0% | 90.0% | — |
| 2018-2019 | 73.1% | 358 | 80.0% | 90.0% | — |
| 2017-2018 | 76.3% | 444 | 82.4% | 91.0% | — |
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Admit rate has tightened 28.2 percentage points over 5 reporting cycles.
Centre College's admit rate fell from 76.3% (2017-2018) to 48.2% (2025-2026) — a 28.2 pp drop. Year-over-year: 76.3 → 73.1 → 76.4 → 62.4 → 48.2. A snapshot of the current year alone would hide this structural shift.
Six-year graduation rate exceeds the national median by 24 percentage points.
Centre College's 80.5% six-year graduation rate exceeds the national 4-year-institution median of 56.3% (per IPEDS, n=1555) by 24.1 pp.
Sources: each school's officially-published Common Data Set; IPEDS / College Scorecard for federal comparisons. Methodology →
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