Lehigh University
Lehigh publishes 29% (Fall 2025 entering class). Early Decision applicants got in at 47%; everyone else at 27%.
Acceptance rate
What Lehigh's 29% is made of
The published rate averages groups with very different odds. These are the splits Lehigh reports itself.
By application round
Fall 2025 entering class (Class of 2029)
Read the full decomposition →Part of Real Acceptance Rates, our series decomposing published rates from each school's own Common Data Set.
Testing
Test-Optional for 2026-27
- Policy
Official policy: 'Lehigh will extend the test optional policy for admission indefinitely while continuing to evaluate its impact.' Applies to both first-year and transfer applicants; multiple test sittings are superscored. No fall-year-specific language used — policy is stated as indefinite/ongoing.
- SAT middle 50%
- 1370–1500sum of section 25th–75th percentiles
- ACT middle 50%
- 31–34
- Average HS GPA
- Not published by the school
Applying
Deadlines, essays and AI policy
- Early deadlines
- Nov 1, 2026 (ED); Jan 1, 2027 (ED2)
- Regular decision
- Jan 1, 2027Source
Full cycle calendar: Application Deadlines.
At a glance
Size and cost
- Undergraduate enrollment
- 5,898
- Tuition (out-of-state)
- $64,980
- Category
- Private
- Admissions site
- www.lehigh.edu
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Sources
- Lehigh test policy (2026-27)
- Acceptance rate, test-score percentiles, enrollment and tuition: U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard, pulled 2026-08-19.
Test policy and deadlines last verified 2026-08-17.
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