Southwest Baptist University acceptance rate and admissions profile

Southwest Baptist University, a private college in Missouri, reports a 68% acceptance rate and sits in the moderately selective band. In practice that means it admits more applicants than it rejects, so a strong application is judged against an applicant pool that is already self-selected.

Use this page to see what Southwest Baptist University weighs, where it ranks among Missouri 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.

The factors that carry the most weight at Southwest Baptist University are 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 Southwest Baptist University's reported Common Data Set, so the full chart below reflects what the school itself says it values, not a generic guess.

Among the 35 Missouri schools we track, Southwest Baptist University ranks #13 most selective by acceptance rate. Schools like Washington University in St. Louis (12%) and College of the Ozarks (12%) sit nearby, which makes Missouri a useful frame for calibrating a balanced list.

Applicants targeting Southwest Baptist University often weigh Brigham Young University, Hofstra University, and Lipscomb University, which sit at a similar level. 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.