Nebraska-Kearney acceptance rate and admissions profile

With an acceptance rate near 89%, Nebraska-Kearney is an accessible public university in Nebraska. 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 Nebraska-Kearney weighs, where it ranks among Nebraska schools, and how a profile like yours is likely to land. Admitted students post a 75th-percentile SAT around 1120, a useful checkpoint for where your scores sit, though it is a reference range and not a cutoff.

In its review, Nebraska-Kearney 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 Nebraska-Kearney's reported Common Data Set, so the full chart below reflects what the school itself says it values, not a generic guess.

Among the 14 Nebraska schools we track, Nebraska-Kearney ranks #13 most selective by acceptance rate. Schools like College of Saint Mary (NE) (45%) and York University (NE) (52%) sit nearby, which makes Nebraska 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 Nebraska-Kearney with peers at a comparable selectivity, such as Colorado State University, East Carolina University, and Iowa 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.

Acceptance rate and admitted test ranges reflect publicly reported data (U.S. Department of Education / NCES IPEDS / Common Data Sets). Estimates from CollegeCalcAI are a planning tool computed by a fixed, transparent model, not a guarantee of any admission decision.