Applicants, Acceptance Rate, Yield Trends at Western Illinois

At Western Illinois University, the average acceptance rate over the past 11 years is 64.80%, and 2024's acceptance rate is 75.00%.

The average yield (enrollment rate) over the period is 20.52%, and the 2024 yield is 15.00%.

The number of Western Illinois applicants decreased by -8.03% (740 applicants) compared to the previous year.

Acceptance Rate Changes

The average acceptance rate over the last 10 years is 64.80%, and this year's acceptance rate is 75.00% at Western Illinois University. By gender, men students' acceptance rate is 62.59% and women students' rate is 66.37%.

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

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Year	Total	Men	Women
	2013-14	59.31%	59.39%	59.26%
2014-15	69.64% 10.32%	68.43% 9.04%	70.58% 11.33%
2015-16	60.07% -9.57%	57.66% -10.77%	61.93% -8.65%
2016-17	59.45% -0.62%	57.43% -0.23%	60.85% -1.08%
2017-18	59.97% 0.51%	58.45% 1.01%	61.08% 0.23%
2018-19	58.78% -1.19%	57.32% -1.12%	59.85% -1.23%
2019-20	56.66% -2.12%	57.28% -0.04%	56.26% -3.60%
2020-21	66.96% 10.30%	64.74% 7.45%	68.33% 12.08%
2021-22	72.00% 5.04%	66.99% 2.25%	76.00% 7.67%
2022-23	75.00% 3.00%	70.82% 3.83%	77.87% 1.87%
2023-24	75.00% 0.00%	69.99% -0.82%	78.00% 0.13%
Average	64.80%	62.59%	66.37%

Admission Yield (Enrollment Rate) Changes

The average admission yield of the last 11 years is 20.52% where the current academic year yield is 15.00%.

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

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Year	Total	Men	Women
2013-14	26.39%	30.51%	23.34%
2014-15	21.60% -4.79%	23.20% -7.30%	20.37% -2.96%
2015-16	23.49% 1.89%	25.92% 2.71%	21.75% 1.38%
2016-17	25.20% 1.71%	27.48% 1.56%	23.72% 1.97%
2017-18	20.59% -4.61%	23.70% -3.78%	18.41% -5.31%
2018-19	17.36% -3.23%	19.84% -3.86%	15.62% -2.79%
2019-20	21.63% 4.27%	24.63% 4.79%	19.70% 4.08%
2020-21	20.90% -0.73%	21.49% -3.14%	20.55% 0.86%
2021-22	17.99% -2.91%	20.02% -1.47%	17.00% -3.55%
2022-23	15.53% -2.46%	17.61% -2.41%	14.24% -2.77%
2023-24	15.00% -0.53%	16.02% -1.60%	15.00% 0.76%
Average	20.52%	22.76%	19.06%

Applicants, Admitted, and Enrolled Headcount Changes

Over the past 10 years, The average number of applicants is 9,179, the average number of admitted is 5,925, and the average number of first-year enrolled students is 1,216.

The number of Western Illinois applicants decreased by -8.03% (740 applicants) compared to the previous year.

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

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Year	Applicants	Admitted	Enrolled
2013-14	10,554	6,260	1,652
2014-15	10,671 1.11%	7,431 18.71%	1,605 -2.85%
2015-16	10,877 1.93%	6,534 -12.07%	1,535 -4.36%
2016-17	10,191 -6.31%	6,059 -7.27%	1,527 -0.52%
2017-18	9,767 -4.16%	5,857 -3.33%	1,206 -21.02%
2018-19	9,151 -6.31%	5,379 -8.16%	934 -22.55%
2019-20	7,302 -20.21%	4,137 -23.09%	895 -4.18%
2020-21	7,603 4.12%	5,091 23.06%	1,064 18.88%
2021-22	7,156 -5.88%	5,152 1.20%	927 -12.88%
2022-23	9,219 28.83%	6,914 34.20%	1,074 15.86%
2023-24	8,479 -8.03%	6,359 -8.03%	954 -11.17%
Average	9,179	5,925	1,216

Compare Acceptance Rate Change to Similar Colleges

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