Stevens acceptance rate and admissions statistics
Stevens admitted 5,321 of 10,499 first-year applicants in its 2025-26 Common Data Set, an official acceptance rate of 50.7%. Every number below comes from the college’s own Common Data Set, each year linked to its document; a figure the college leaves blank says “Not published”, and the notes at the foot of the page say where a total is the sum of rows the college printed.
What did admitted applicants have? How to get into Stevens counts the grades, scores and activities they posted.
Stevens acceptance rate by year
| CDS year | Applied | Admitted | Acceptance rate | Enrolled | Yield |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 10,499 | 5,321 | 50.7% | 1,104 | 20.7% |
| 2024-25 | 10,673 | 5,078 | 47.6% | 1,055 | 20.8% |
| 2023-24 | 14,170 | 6,156 | 43.4% | 1,024 | 16.6% |
Acceptance rate is admitted divided by applied; yield is enrolled divided by admitted. Both are computed by Aristo Scholars from the two counts printed beside them.
Early decision at Stevens
Stevens waitlist
Stevens SAT and ACT scores
What Stevens says matters in admission
In section C7 each college rates its own admission factors as Very Important, Important, Considered or Not Considered. These are the factors Stevens rated in the top two tiers.
- 2025-26
- Very important: Academic GPA
- Important: Rigor of secondary school record, Application essay, Recommendations
- 2024-25
- Very important: Academic GPA
- Important: Rigor of secondary school record, Application essay, Recommendations
- 2023-24
- Very important: Academic GPA
- Important: Rigor of secondary school record, Application essay, Recommendations
Stevens testing policy for students applying in 2026-27
Test-optional for first-year applicants through Fall 2029. Exception: Accelerated Pre-Medicine applicants need a 1400 SAT or a 32 ACT composite (with science) from one sitting.
From Stevens’s admissions site, read 2026-11-05. Policies change; the college’s page is the authority.
How these numbers were read
C1 totals are the residency table totals.
Stevens acceptance rate questions
- What is the Stevens acceptance rate?
- Stevens's Common Data Set for 2025-26 reports 10,499 first-year applicants and 5,321 admitted, an acceptance rate of 50.7%. It was 47.6% in 2024-25 and 43.4% in 2023-24.
- What is the Stevens early decision acceptance rate?
- In 2025-26, 284 of 407 early decision applicants were admitted (69.8%), against 50.7% of all applicants. Early decision applicants are a different pool who commit to enroll, so the two rates are not a like-for-like comparison.
- What SAT scores do Stevens students have?
- In 2025-26, the middle half of enrolled first-year students who submitted the SAT scored 1370 to 1470, and ACT submitters scored 32 to 34. 36.1% of enrolled students submitted an SAT score.
- How many students get off the Stevens waitlist?
- In 2025-26, Stevens offered 2,565 applicants a place on the waitlist; 940 accepted one, and 517 were admitted from it.
- Does Stevens require the SAT or ACT for students applying in 2026-27?
- Test-optional for first-year applicants through Fall 2029. Exception: Accelerated Pre-Medicine applicants need a 1400 SAT or a 32 ACT composite (with science) from one sitting.
Applying to Stevens?
An acceptance rate describes the whole pool, not one student. A Specialist can read your student’s file against what Stevens says it weighs.
Source: Stevens Common Data Set, sections C1, C2, C7, C9 and C21, each year linked above, read 2026-11-05. Aristo Scholars is not affiliated with Stevens. All official acceptance rates