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Common Data Set 2025-2026

Harvey Mudd College

CA · Private · ~900 undergraduates

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Acceptance rate · 2025-2026
12.3%

Harvey Mudd College's admit rate has fallen 21.7 percentage points across the 16 reported years on file.

SAT · 50th
1510
Range 1500–1560
6-yr grad
93.0%
Retention 95.2%
Undergrads
913
8:1 student-faculty
Drawn directly from Harvey Mudd College's officially-published 2025-2026 Common Data Set.
Harvey Mudd College Admission

At a glance

The headline numbers, drawn from CDS sections A–H.

Admit rate12.3% SAT (50th)1,510 ACT (50th)35 Undergraduates913 6-yr graduation93.0% Retention95.2% Tuition (FT)$68,613 Student–faculty ratio8:1

Recent years

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.

YearAdmit rateEnrolled6-yr gradRetentionSAT (50th)
2025-202612.3%23694.0%95.2%1,510
2024-202512.7%23190.0%96.0%1,530
2023-202413.1%22493.8%97.0%1,520
2022-202313.4%23792.0%97.0%1,530
2021-202210.0%22594.0%98.0%—

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Cross-admits and statistical look-alikes, surfaced from the CollegeNumbers peer model.

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Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMA · 4.5% admit · SAT 1550 · 4,535 UG California Institute of TechnologyCA · 2.6% admit · 987 UG Stanford UniversityCA · 3.8% admit · SAT 1550 · 7,346 UG Pomona CollegeCA · 6.8% admit · SAT 1520 · 1,761 UG Carnegie Mellon UniversityPA · 11.1% admit · SAT 1540 · 7,304 UG Princeton UniversityNJ · 4.4% admit · SAT 1530 · 5,916 UG Franklin W Olin College of EngineeringMA · 21.7% admit · SAT 1530 · 402 UG
Statistically similar — worth a look
Haverford CollegePA · 12.4% admit · SAT 1500 · 1,430 UG Claremont McKenna CollegeCA · 9.4% admit · SAT 1510 · 1,378 UG

What the data says about Harvey Mudd College

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.

01

Highly selective — top tier of CDS Atlas schools.

Harvey Mudd College's 12.3% admit rate places it among 50 of 334 covered schools admitting below 15% (~15.0% of the index).

02

Six-year graduation rate exceeds the national median by 38 percentage points.

Harvey Mudd College's 94.0% six-year graduation rate exceeds the national 4-year-institution median of 56.3% (per IPEDS, n=1555) by 37.7 pp.

03

First-year retention is among the highest in the index.

Harvey Mudd College's 95.2% first-year retention exceeds the national 4-year-institution median of 76.8% by 18.5 pp — a strong signal of student-institution fit at intake.

Sources: each school's officially-published Common Data Set; IPEDS / College Scorecard for federal comparisons. Methodology →

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Methodology

The Common Data Set is a standardized reporting form U.S. colleges file annually — sections A through J covering admissions selectivity, enrollment, aid, faculty resources, and outcomes. CollegeNumbers extracts every value directly from each school's officially published CDS PDF, xlsx, docx, or HTML, then normalizes into a unified schema.

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