Villanova University
Villanova publishes 28% (Fall 2025 entering class). Early Decision applicants got in at 60%; everyone else at 26%.
Acceptance rate
What Villanova's 28% is made of
The published rate averages groups with very different odds. These are the splits Villanova reports itself.
By application round
Fall 2025 entering class (Class of 2029), per Common Data Set 2025-2026, Section C1
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: 'Villanova University remains test-optional for applicants through the 2026-27 admission campaign (Class of 2031).' Exception: applicants homeschooled for more than one full academic year of high school are required to submit test scores. Holistic review continues to weigh grades, curriculum strength, writing supplement, activities, and recommendations.
- SAT middle 50%
- 1395–1510sum of section 25th–75th percentiles
- ACT middle 50%
- 32–34
- Average HS GPA
- 3.93Fall 2024 enrolled first-year students (CDS 2024-2025) · Source
Applying
Deadlines, essays and AI policy
- Early deadlines
- Nov 1, 2026 (EA); Nov 1, 2026 (ED); Jan 15, 2027 (ED2)
- Regular decision
- Jan 15, 2027Source
Full cycle calendar: Application Deadlines.
At a glance
Size and cost
- Undergraduate enrollment
- 6,938
- Tuition (out-of-state)
- $67,776
- Category
- Private
- Admissions site
- www.villanova.edu
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Sources
- Villanova test policy (2026-27)
- Villanova deadlines
- Villanova GPA (Fall 2024 enrolled first-year students (CDS 2024-2025))
- 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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