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Stanford University Acceptance Rate & Admissions Info

4 Year

Private

Not-for-Profit

Award Completions

Bachelor’s degree
Master’s degree
Post-master’s certificate
Doctor’s degree – research/scholarship
Doctor’s degree – professional practice

State Abbreviation

California

450 JANE STANFORD WAYSTANFORD, CA 94305

Net Price

Admission Stats

Total enrollments (2022)

Average ACT

$14,402

4%

18283

34

Admission Deadlines

Competitiveness Scale

Average GPA

Average SAT

5-Jan

Hard

3.95

1505

Stanford is an elite private university located in Stanford, California in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is a mid-size institution with an enrollment of 7,645 undergraduate students. Admissions is extremely competitive as the Stanford acceptance rate is only 4%. Popular majors include Computer Science, Biology, and Engineering. Graduating 96% of students, Stanford alumni go on to earn a starting salary of $70,400.

How does college or university compare?

The acceptance rate for Stanford University is more than 100% lower than the national average of all colleges which is around 56.7%.

Santa Clara University48.80%
California State University-East Bay76.20%
University of San Francisco64.40%
University of California-Santa Cruz51.30%
California State University-Monterey Bay75.30%