Fordham University's admit rate has risen 11.7 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 54.1% | 2,594 | 83.4% | 87.7% | 1,400 |
| 2021-2022 | 58.3% | 2,879 | 83.2% | 88.1% | — |
| 2020-2021 | 52.5% | 2,086 | 83.2% | 89.4% | — |
| 2019-2020 | 45.9% | 2,270 | 82.7% | 91.1% | — |
| 2018-2019 | 46.0% | 2,299 | 83.3% | 89.7% | — |
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.
Cross-admit cohort spans an unusually wide selectivity range.
The schools Fordham University applicants most commonly also apply to range from 5.6% admit to 75.4% admit — a 69.8 pp band. A reasonable read: applicants choose by region or program fit rather than selectivity tier alone.
Six-year graduation rate exceeds the national median by 27 percentage points.
Fordham University's 83.4% six-year graduation rate exceeds the national 4-year-institution median of 56.3% (per IPEDS, n=1555) by 27.1 pp.
Sources: each school's officially-published Common Data Set; IPEDS / College Scorecard for federal comparisons. Methodology →
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