Acceptance Rate and Admission Trends for Maryland Colleges

Acceptance Rate Trends

The average acceptance rate over the last 10 years is 66.52% where the current academic year rate is 69.74% at Maryland Colleges. By gender, men students' acceptance rate is 64.60% and women students' rate is 65.91%.

The following table and chart illustrate the acceptance rates changes at Maryland Colleges over the past 11 years (2014-2025).

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Year	Total	Men	Women
	2014-15	60.13%	59.53%	58.69%
2015-16	60.35% 0.22%	60.70% 1.17%	58.16% -0.53%
2016-17	57.49% -2.86%	56.62% -4.08%	56.14% -2.02%
2017-18	62.85% 5.36%	61.61% 4.99%	62.01% 5.86%
2018-19	63.41% 0.56%	60.29% -1.32%	62.52% 0.51%
2019-20	69.39% 5.99%	67.65% 7.36%	68.94% 6.43%
2020-21	71.49% 2.10%	69.97% 2.33%	70.96% 2.02%
2021-22	73.42% 1.93%	70.76% 0.78%	73.60% 2.64%
2022-23	71.96% -1.47%	68.26% -2.50%	72.58% -1.02%
2023-24	71.53% -0.43%	68.23% -0.03%	71.52% -1.07%
2024-25	69.74% -1.79%	67.00% -1.23%	69.87% -1.64%
Average	66.52%	64.60%	65.91%

Admission Yield (Enrollment Rate) Changes

The average admission yield of the last 12 years is 30.97% where the current academic year yield is 27.50%. The yield, also known as enrollment rate is the percentage of admitted students who finally enrolled. The following table and chart illustrate the changes in yield at Maryland Colleges from 2014 to 2025.

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Year	Total	Men	Women
2014-15	36.54%	38.65%	30.78%
2015-16	35.23% -1.31%	37.53% -1.12%	29.05% -1.72%
2016-17	31.51% -3.72%	33.50% -4.03%	25.29% -3.76%
2017-18	31.21% -0.30%	32.89% -0.61%	27.32% 2.03%
2018-19	32.98% 1.77%	33.32% 0.44%	28.19% 0.87%
2019-20	32.36% -0.61%	33.91% 0.59%	26.58% -1.60%
2020-21	28.15% -4.21%	27.41% -6.50%	22.58% -4.00%
2021-22	28.49% 0.34%	31.38% 3.97%	20.52% -2.07%
2022-23	28.40% -0.10%	28.45% -2.93%	22.76% 2.24%
2023-24	28.28% -0.12%	27.59% -0.86%	22.21% -0.55%
2024-25	27.50% -0.78%	26.94% -0.66%	21.42% -0.79%
Average	30.97%	31.96%	25.15%

Applicants, Admitted, and Enrolled Headcount Changes

The average number of applicants is 203,198, the average number of admitted is 103,925, and the average number of enrolled students is 22,659 over the last 10 years.

The number of applicants to Maryland Colleges increased by 8.84% (21,700 applicants) compared to last year.

The following table and chart show the changes of applicants, admitted, and enrolled headcount at Maryland Colleges from 2014 to 2025.

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Year	Applicants	Admitted	Enrolled
2014-15	172,797	80,899	21,416
2015-16	173,218 0.24%	80,913 0.02%	21,189 -1.06%
2016-17	187,067 8.00%	85,247 5.36%	21,865 3.19%
2017-18	190,562 1.87%	89,051 4.46%	21,800 -0.30%
2018-19	188,928 -0.86%	90,437 1.56%	22,492 3.17%
2019-20	185,456 -1.84%	91,989 1.72%	21,888 -2.69%
2020-21	188,916 1.87%	103,975 13.03%	20,679 -5.52%
2021-22	212,237 12.34%	118,481 13.95%	23,454 13.42%
2022-23	223,344 5.23%	122,821 3.66%	24,271 3.48%
2023-24	245,478 9.91%	135,887 10.64%	25,159 3.66%
2024-25	267,178 8.84%	143,475 5.58%	25,041 -0.47%
Average	203,198	103,925	22,659