Eckerd College's admit rate has risen 8.4 percentage points across the 5 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-2025 | 75.8% | 474 | 68.5% | 75.8% | 1,240 |
| 2023-2024 | — | — | — | 78.0% | — |
| 2022-2023 | 65.1% | 544 | 67.0% | 77.0% | 1,200 |
| 2021-2022 | 70.3% | 650 | 69.0% | 80.0% | — |
| 2020-2021 | 68.6% | 487 | 64.3% | 79.2% | — |
Cross-admits and statistical look-alikes, surfaced from the CollegeNumbers peer model.
Comparative observations derived from this school's reported CDS values and from IPEDS / College Scorecard reference data. Every claim is grounded in a number — no editorial overlay.
Six-year graduation rate exceeds the national median by 12 percentage points.
Eckerd College's 68.5% six-year graduation rate exceeds the national 4-year-institution median of 56.3% (per IPEDS, n=1555) by 12.2 pp.
Cross-admits concentrated in the home region.
3 of 4 cross-admit schools are in FL — Eckerd College draws applicants weighing it against in-state and adjacent-state alternatives, not coastal or selective national peers.
Broadly accessible — admit rate near the national norm.
Eckerd College's 75.8% admit rate is in line with the national 4-year-institution median of 76.6% (per IPEDS, n=1437 institutions). Most U.S. four-year colleges admit between 61.2% and 88.3% of applicants.
Sources: each school's officially-published Common Data Set; IPEDS / College Scorecard for federal comparisons. Methodology →
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