Applicants, Acceptance Rate, Yield Trends at Duquesne

At Duquesne University, the average acceptance rate over the past 11 years is 76.57%, and 2024's acceptance rate is 79.00%. For 2024 admission, it was slightly harder to get into Duquesne University than the previous year.

The average yield (enrollment rate) over the period is 23.00%, and the 2024 yield is 13.00%.

The number of Duquesne applicants increased by 14.03% (1,736 applicants) compared to the previous year.

Acceptance Rate Changes

The average acceptance rate over the last 10 years is 76.57%, and this year's acceptance rate is 79.00% at Duquesne University. By gender, men students' acceptance rate is 77.67% and women students' rate is 76.11%. For 2024 admission, it was slightly harder to get into Duquesne University than the previous year.

The following table and chart illustrate the acceptance rates changes at Duquesne University over the past 11 years (2013-2024).

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Year	Total	Men	Women
	2013-14	74.09%	76.54%	72.79%
2014-15	73.06% -1.03%	75.03% -1.50%	72.17% -0.62%
2015-16	75.63% 2.57%	77.55% 2.51%	74.68% 2.51%
2016-17	73.94% -1.69%	75.75% -1.80%	73.01% -1.67%
2017-18	71.70% -2.24%	73.54% -2.21%	70.82% -2.19%
2018-19	71.85% 0.14%	74.15% 0.61%	70.67% -0.15%
2019-20	74.33% 2.49%	77.85% 3.70%	72.63% 1.96%
2020-21	77.19% 2.86%	77.41% -0.44%	77.08% 4.45%
2021-22	84.00% 6.81%	83.99% 6.58%	84.00% 6.92%
2022-23	87.49% 3.49%	86.57% 2.58%	88.38% 4.38%
2023-24	79.00% -8.50%	76.00% -10.56%	80.99% -7.39%
Average	76.57%	77.67%	76.11%

Admission Yield (Enrollment Rate) Changes

The average admission yield of the last 11 years is 23.00% where the current academic year yield is 13.00%.

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in yield at Duquesne University from 2013 to 2024.

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Year	Total	Men	Women
2013-14	30.74%	31.60%	30.25%
2014-15	28.13% -2.61%	29.55% -2.05%	27.44% -2.82%
2015-16	25.80% -2.33%	26.01% -3.54%	25.70% -1.74%
2016-17	27.49% 1.69%	28.58% 2.57%	26.99% 1.29%
2017-18	29.70% 2.20%	30.27% 1.69%	29.41% 2.42%
2018-19	28.04% -1.65%	29.43% -0.84%	27.30% -2.11%
2019-20	24.22% -3.82%	25.29% -4.14%	23.67% -3.63%
2020-21	18.57% -5.65%	18.45% -6.84%	18.64% -5.04%
2021-22	14.00% -4.58%	14.99% -3.46%	12.99% -5.64%
2022-23	13.31% -0.69%	13.55% -1.44%	13.28% 0.28%
2023-24	13.00% -0.31%	14.01% 0.46%	12.99% -0.28%
Average	23.00%	23.79%	22.61%

Applicants, Admitted, and Enrolled Headcount Changes

Over the past 10 years, The average number of applicants is 8,704, the average number of admitted is 6,754, and the average number of first-year enrolled students is 1,416.

The number of Duquesne applicants increased by 14.03% (1,736 applicants) compared to the previous year.

The following table and chart show the changes of applicants, admitted, and enrolled headcount at Duquesne University from 2013 to 2024.

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Year	Applicants	Admitted	Enrolled
2013-14	6,793	5,033	1,547
2014-15	6,534 -3.81%	4,774 -5.15%	1,343 -13.19%
2015-16	7,354 12.55%	5,562 16.51%	1,435 6.85%
2016-17	7,655 4.09%	5,660 1.76%	1,556 8.43%
2017-18	7,336 -4.17%	5,260 -7.07%	1,562 0.39%
2018-19	7,505 2.30%	5,392 2.51%	1,512 -3.20%
2019-20	7,231 -3.65%	5,375 -0.32%	1,302 -13.89%
2020-21	8,335 15.27%	6,434 19.70%	1,195 -8.22%
2021-22	10,512 26.12%	8,830 37.24%	1,236 3.43%
2022-23	12,376 17.73%	10,828 22.63%	1,441 16.59%
2023-24	14,112 14.03%	11,148 2.96%	1,449 0.56%
Average	8,704	6,754	1,416

Compare Acceptance Rate Change to Similar Colleges

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