Indiana University acceptance rate and your odds of getting in

With an acceptance rate near 78%, Indiana University is an accessible public university in Indiana. Because it admits most qualified applicants, admission turns on the strength of your whole profile rather than any one number.

Use this page to see what Indiana University weighs, where it ranks among Indiana schools, and how a profile like yours is likely to land. Admitted students post a 75th-percentile SAT around 1330, a useful checkpoint for where your scores sit, though it is a reference range and not a cutoff.

What are my chances at Indiana University with a 3.1 GPA and a 1290 SAT?

About 96% (Safety), by CollegeCalcAI's deterministic model, for an applicant with a 3.1 unweighted GPA and a 1290 SAT, the middle of Indiana University's admitted range, applying Regular Decision without a hook. A 3.4 GPA with a 1400 SAT comes out near 98%. Courses, activities, essays and the application round move the number; the free calculator includes them.

Estimates, not guarantees. Get yours with your real courses and activities. Assistants and developers can fetch this table from the free API: /api/v1/colleges/indiana-university.

Here is how to get into Indiana University, built from what its admitted class actually looks like and what the school says it weighs.

For the fall 2023 entering class, Indiana University received 54,279 applications and admitted 43,624, an acceptance rate of 80.4%. 9,550 enrolled. Only about 22% of admitted students enrolled, so the school admits several students for every seat it expects to fill, which is why its acceptance rate reads higher than its selectivity feels. Indiana University enrolls about 37,806 undergraduates in total, 50% of them women, with a student-to-faculty ratio of 18 to 1.

Source: U.S. Department of Education, IPEDS 2023 admissions and enrollment.

The middle 50% of admitted students at Indiana University scored between 1170 and 1400 on the SAT (average 1313). On the ACT the middle 50% runs from 27 to 33. A score above 1400 puts you in the top quarter of admits and turns the test into an asset; a score below 1170 puts you in the bottom quarter, where the rest of the application has to carry more weight. Indiana University is test-optional: scores are considered if you submit them but not required. Send a score at or above the middle of the admitted range; otherwise apply without one and let your transcript lead.

Source: College Scorecard (U.S. Department of Education), release 2026-06-10.

In its review, Indiana University leans most on rigor of secondary school record, academic GPA, and standardized test scores. Solid grades in a challenging schedule do most of the work here, with the rest of the application providing context. These ratings come from Indiana University's reported Common Data Set, so the full chart below reflects what the school itself says it values, not a generic guess.

Indiana University's published cost of attendance, before any aid, is roughly $28,801 per year. Tuition and fees are $12,144 for IN residents and $41,891 for out-of-state students, a $29,747 gap that makes residency the single biggest lever on cost. What families actually pay is different: the average net price after grants and scholarships is $16,264 a year, and it ranges from $6,324 for families earning under $30,000 to $25,128 for families earning over $110,000. 17% of undergraduates receive a federal Pell Grant.

Source: College Scorecard (U.S. Department of Education), release 2026-06-10. Net price is what students receiving aid paid after grants, by family income.

Ten years after enrolling, the median Indiana University student who received federal aid earns $63,742 a year, up from $53,417 at six years. 80% of first-time, full-time students graduate within six years, and 91% return for a second year. Among graduates who borrowed, median federal debt at graduation is $19,509; 27% of undergraduates take federal loans.

Source: College Scorecard (U.S. Department of Education), release 2026-06-10. Earnings cover students who received federal aid.

Among the 40 Indiana schools we track, Indiana University ranks #19 most selective by acceptance rate. Schools like University of Notre Dame (11%) and Purdue University (50%) sit nearby, which makes Indiana a useful frame for calibrating a balanced list. As a public university, residency matters: in-state applicants generally see meaningfully better odds than the headline rate suggests.

Build around Indiana University with peers at a comparable selectivity, such as Eastern Kentucky University, Jacksonville State University, and McNeese State University. Running the same profile against each one in the free calculator is the fastest way to see where you are a reach, a match, or a likely.

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Acceptance rate, application counts, admitted test ranges, cost, and outcomes reflect publicly reported federal data (U.S. Department of Education: IPEDS 2023 and the College Scorecard) and each school's Common Data Set; figures are rounded and lag the current cycle by one to two years, so confirm deadlines and policies on the school's own site. The typical-admit GPA and SAT are CollegeCalcAI's modeled estimates. Estimates from CollegeCalcAI are a planning tool computed by a fixed, transparent model, not a guarantee of any admission decision.