Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts's admit rate has risen 10.8 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-2024 | 92.4% | 190 | 49.1% | 68.9% | — |
| 2022-2023 | 94.0% | 177 | 55.6% | 64.0% | — |
| 2021-2022 | 91.0% | 167 | 58.0% | 63.0% | — |
| 2020-2021 | 87.7% | 171 | 53.0% | 71.6% | — |
| 2019-2020 | 81.6% | 285 | 61.0% | 72.4% | — |
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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.
Broadly accessible — admit rate near the national norm.
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts's 92.4% 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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