Applicants, Acceptance Rate, Yield Trends at Penn State Altoona

The average acceptance rate over the last 10 years is 65.07%, and this year's acceptance rate is 95.76% at Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Altoona. By gender, men students' acceptance rate is 64.94% and women students' rate is 65.21%.

Year	Total	Men	Women
	2012-13	84.46%	84.12%	84.81%
2013-14	85.19% 0.73%	84.80% 0.78%	85.59% 0.78%
2014-15	88.35% 3.16%	88.91% 2.18%	87.77% 2.18%
2015-16	89.39% 1.04%	89.11% 1.89%	89.66% 1.89%
2016-17	89.49% 0.11%	89.24% 0.08%	89.74% 0.08%
2017-18	92.25% 2.75%	91.32% 3.45%	93.18% 3.45%
2018-19	90.88% -1.36%	90.76% -2.18%	91.01% -2.18%
2019-20	-	-	-
2020-21	-	-	-
2021-22	-	-	-
2022-23	95.76% -	96.14% -	95.50% -
Average	65.07%	64.94%	65.21%

The average admission yield of the last 11 years is 18.93% where the current academic year yield is 12.56%.

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in yield at Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Altoona from 2012 to 2023.

Over the past 10 years, The average number of applicants is 4,155, the average number of admitted is 3,724, and the average number of first-year enrolled students is 941.

Year	Applicants	Admitted	Enrolled
2012-13	6,083	5,138	1,585
2013-14	5,700 -383	4,856 -206	1,379 -206
2014-15	5,630 -70	4,974 108	1,487 108
2015-16	5,738 108	5,129 -108	1,379 -108
2016-17	5,120 -618	4,582 -176	1,203 -176
2017-18	5,430 310	5,009 71	1,274 71
2018-19	4,486 -944	4,077 -133	1,141 -133
2019-20	-	-	-
2020-21	-	-	-
2021-22	-	-	-
2022-23	7,523 -	7,204 -	905 -
Average	4,155	3,724	941