King University acceptance rate and your odds of getting in

With an acceptance rate near 100%, King University is an accessible private college in Tennessee. 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 King University weighs, where it ranks among Tennessee schools, and how a profile like yours is likely to land. Admitted students post a 75th-percentile SAT around 1150, a useful checkpoint for where your scores sit, though it is a reference range and not a cutoff.

What are my chances at King University with a 3.1 GPA and a 1090 SAT?

About 98% (Safety), by CollegeCalcAI's deterministic model, for an applicant with a 3.1 unweighted GPA and a 1090 SAT, the middle of King University's admitted range, applying Regular Decision without a hook. A 3.4 GPA with a 1150 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/king-university.

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

For the fall 2023 entering class, King University received 1,195 applications and admitted 650, an acceptance rate of 54.4%. 166 enrolled. Only about 26% 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. King University enrolls about 908 undergraduates in total, 59% of them women, with a student-to-faculty ratio of 11 to 1.

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

King University reports that it neither requires nor recommends test scores, so admission turns on your transcript, rigor, and the rest of the file.

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

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

The full sticker price at King University (tuition, fees, housing, food, books) is about $49,004 a year. Tuition and fees alone are $36,194. What families actually pay is different: the average net price after grants and scholarships is $22,347 a year, and it ranges from $22,696 for families earning under $30,000 to $27,219 for families earning over $110,000. 42% 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.

Median earnings for King University students ten years after entry are $59,831 ($52,248 at the six-year mark). 48% of first-time, full-time students graduate within six years, and 60% return for a second year. Among graduates who borrowed, median federal debt at graduation is $22,750; 55% 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 33 Tennessee schools we track, King University ranks #33 most selective by acceptance rate. Schools like Vanderbilt University (6%) and Fisk University (37%) sit nearby, which makes Tennessee a useful frame for calibrating a balanced list.

Build around King University with peers at a comparable selectivity, such as American International College, Loras College, and Southern New Hampshire 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.

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.