Applicants, Acceptance Rate, Yield Trends at Hawaii Pacific

At Hawaii Pacific University, the average acceptance rate over the past 11 years is 77.70%, and 2024's acceptance rate is 84.00%. For 2024 admission, it was slightly harder to get into Hawaii Pacific University than the previous year.

The average yield (enrollment rate) over the period is 11.87%, and the 2024 yield is 4.00%.

The number of Hawaii Pacific applicants increased by 8.87% (1,184 applicants) compared to the previous year.

Acceptance Rate Changes

The average acceptance rate over the last 10 years is 77.70%, and this year's acceptance rate is 84.00% at Hawaii Pacific University. By gender, men students' acceptance rate is 75.22% and women students' rate is 78.62%. For 2024 admission, it was slightly harder to get into Hawaii Pacific University than the previous year.

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

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Year	Total	Men	Women
	2013-14	64.11%	66.75%	62.99%
2014-15	61.83% -2.28%	60.04% -6.71%	62.62% -0.37%
2015-16	91.30% 29.48%	89.42% 29.37%	92.08% 29.46%
2016-17	75.37% -15.94%	71.38% -18.03%	76.93% -15.16%
2017-18	74.68% -0.69%	71.36% -0.03%	75.92% -1.01%
2018-19	75.13% 0.45%	70.47% -0.89%	76.75% 0.84%
2019-20	74.83% -0.30%	70.19% -0.28%	76.44% -0.31%
2020-21	81.40% 6.57%	79.15% 8.95%	82.13% 5.69%
2021-22	85.00% 3.60%	83.00% 3.85%	86.00% 3.87%
2022-23	87.10% 2.10%	83.67% 0.67%	87.96% 1.96%
2023-24	84.00% -3.10%	81.99% -1.68%	85.00% -2.96%
Average	77.70%	75.22%	78.62%

Admission Yield (Enrollment Rate) Changes

The average admission yield of the last 11 years is 11.87% where the current academic year yield is 4.00%.

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

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Year	Total	Men	Women
2013-14	21.91%	24.67%	20.68%
2014-15	20.20% -1.71%	22.15% -2.53%	19.37% -1.31%
2015-16	16.01% -4.20%	19.25% -2.90%	14.70% -4.67%
2016-17	11.63% -4.37%	12.15% -7.10%	11.45% -3.25%
2017-18	10.22% -1.41%	9.11% -3.03%	10.61% -0.84%
2018-19	12.26% 2.04%	12.63% 3.52%	12.14% 1.53%
2019-20	13.40% 1.14%	13.58% 0.95%	13.34% 1.21%
2020-21	7.97% -5.43%	8.42% -5.16%	7.83% -5.51%
2021-22	8.00% 0.03%	8.99% 0.56%	7.00% -0.83%
2022-23	5.00% -2.99%	6.43% -2.56%	4.66% -2.34%
2023-24	4.00% -1.01%	6.01% -0.42%	4.00% -0.66%
Average	11.87%	13.03%	11.43%

Applicants, Admitted, and Enrolled Headcount Changes

Over the past 10 years, The average number of applicants is 7,583, the average number of admitted is 6,064, and the average number of first-year enrolled students is 557.

The number of Hawaii Pacific applicants increased by 8.87% (1,184 applicants) compared to the previous year.

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

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Year	Applicants	Admitted	Enrolled
2013-14	4,207	2,697	591
2014-15	4,668 10.96%	2,886 7.01%	583 -1.35%
2015-16	3,449 -26.11%	3,149 9.11%	504 -13.55%
2016-17	5,452 58.07%	4,109 30.49%	478 -5.16%
2017-18	6,551 20.16%	4,892 19.06%	500 4.60%
2018-19	6,168 -5.85%	4,634 -5.27%	568 13.60%
2019-20	4,787 -22.39%	3,582 -22.70%	480 -15.49%
2020-21	8,296 73.30%	6,753 88.53%	538 12.08%
2021-22	11,948 44.02%	10,156 50.39%	812 50.93%
2022-23	13,354 11.77%	11,631 14.52%	582 -28.33%
2023-24	14,538 8.87%	12,212 5.00%	488 -16.15%
Average	7,583	6,064	557

Compare Acceptance Rate Change to Similar Colleges

The following table compares acceptance rate changes from last year between Hawaii Pacific University and similar schools.