Applicants, Acceptance Rate, Yield Trends at Murray State

At Murray State University, the average acceptance rate over the past 11 years is 83.69%, and 2024's acceptance rate is 86.00%.

The average yield (enrollment rate) over the period is 25.37%, and the 2024 yield is 17.00%.

The number of Murray State applicants increased by 7.68% (787 applicants) compared to the previous year.

Acceptance Rate Changes

The average acceptance rate over the last 10 years is 83.69%, and this year's acceptance rate is 86.00% at Murray State University. By gender, men students' acceptance rate is 82.04% and women students' rate is 84.73%.

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

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Year	Total	Men	Women
	2013-14	82.17%	79.02%	84.37%
2014-15	79.96% -2.21%	77.59% -1.43%	81.54% -2.82%
2015-16	90.60% 10.65%	87.80% 10.21%	92.54% 11.00%
2016-17	85.35% -5.25%	82.74% -5.06%	86.99% -5.55%
2017-18	86.67% 1.31%	85.73% 2.99%	87.22% 0.23%
2018-19	81.42% -5.25%	80.85% -4.88%	81.73% -5.48%
2019-20	82.39% 0.97%	82.09% 1.24%	82.56% 0.83%
2020-21	77.03% -5.36%	75.95% -6.14%	77.64% -4.93%
2021-22	85.00% 7.96%	83.02% 7.07%	85.99% 8.36%
2022-23	83.98% -1.01%	81.66% -1.35%	85.47% -0.53%
2023-24	86.00% 2.02%	86.00% 4.33%	86.01% 0.54%
Average	83.69%	82.04%	84.73%

Admission Yield (Enrollment Rate) Changes

The average admission yield of the last 11 years is 25.37% where the current academic year yield is 17.00%.

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

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Year	Total	Men	Women
2013-14	43.24%	45.17%	42.03%
2014-15	39.62% -3.62%	39.41% -5.77%	39.76% -2.28%
2015-16	33.24% -6.38%	33.85% -5.56%	32.85% -6.91%
2016-17	27.16% -6.08%	28.77% -5.08%	26.20% -6.64%
2017-18	24.13% -3.03%	26.51% -2.26%	22.76% -3.44%
2018-19	19.62% -4.51%	21.87% -4.64%	18.40% -4.36%
2019-20	20.71% 1.09%	21.57% -0.30%	20.24% 1.84%
2020-21	20.43% -0.28%	21.45% -0.13%	19.87% -0.37%
2021-22	18.00% -2.43%	20.99% -0.46%	16.00% -3.87%
2022-23	15.87% -2.13%	17.81% -3.17%	14.86% -1.13%
2023-24	17.00% 1.13%	16.99% -0.82%	18.01% 3.14%
Average	25.37%	26.76%	24.64%

Applicants, Admitted, and Enrolled Headcount Changes

Over the past 10 years, The average number of applicants is 7,651, the average number of admitted is 6,392, and the average number of first-year enrolled students is 1,470.

The number of Murray State applicants increased by 7.68% (787 applicants) compared to the previous year.

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

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Year	Applicants	Admitted	Enrolled
2013-14	4,576	3,760	1,626
2014-15	4,760 4.02%	3,806 1.22%	1,508 -7.26%
2015-16	4,874 2.39%	4,416 16.03%	1,468 -2.65%
2016-17	6,479 32.93%	5,530 25.23%	1,502 2.32%
2017-18	6,900 6.50%	5,980 8.14%	1,443 -3.93%
2018-19	8,256 19.65%	6,722 12.41%	1,319 -8.59%
2019-20	8,327 0.86%	6,861 2.07%	1,421 7.73%
2020-21	9,552 14.71%	7,358 7.24%	1,503 5.77%
2021-22	9,144 -4.27%	7,772 5.63%	1,399 -6.92%
2022-23	10,251 12.11%	8,609 10.77%	1,366 -2.36%
2023-24	11,038 7.68%	9,493 10.27%	1,614 18.16%
Average	7,651	6,392	1,470

Compare Acceptance Rate Change to Similar Colleges

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