Test-optionalNo early plan
Mississippi State University
MS · Public · South · National university · 18,689 undergraduates (large)
Admission rates
Latest admit rates
Overall admit rate83.6%
Early roundNo early plan
Regular round†83.6%no early round, so same as overall
† This school has no early round, so the regular rate equals the overall admit rate.
Trends, Fall 2019–Fall 2025
Admission rates
Overall
Early plans
Fall 2027 applicants
No early plan (rolling admission) · School admissions page ↗
Testing
Testing policy
Fall 2027
Fall 2028
Fall 2028 policy not yet announced.School testing page ↗ · checked Nov 2026
Superscoring
What this means:
How to send scores
Not stated on the school’s site
The saved pages do not describe a submission method.
checked Nov 9, 2026
Students submitting scores
Est. % submitting scores‡88.3%SAT 7.3% + ACT 81%
‡ Est. % submitting scores adds the share of enrolled first-years who submitted the SAT to the share who submitted the ACT.
Submitted SAT7.3%
297 students
Submitted ACT81%
3,279 students
Score ranges (middle 50%)
Enrolled first-years who submitted scores, Fall 2025. A quarter scored below the range and a quarter above.
SAT composite
1000–1230
10001600
SAT Reading & Writing
510–620
500800
SAT Math
490–620
450800
ACT composite
21–29
2036
Trends, Fall 2019–Fall 2025
Share of enrolled students submitting scores
SAT + ACT (est.)SATACT
SAT composite, middle 50%
25th–75th percentile, enrolled students (labels show both values)
ACT composite, middle 50%
25th–75th percentile, enrolled students (labels show both values)
Year-by-year data, Fall 2019–Fall 2025
| CDS year | Admitted | Admit rate | ED rate | Est. % submitting | % SAT | % ACT | SAT mid-50 | ACT mid-50 | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 ↗ | 12,113 | 66.3% | Not reported | 100% | 6% | 94% | Not reported | 22-30 | |||
| 2020-21 ↗ | 12,908 | 80% | Not reported | 99% | 6% | 93% | Not reported | 22-30 | |||
| 2021-22 ↗ | 13,478 | 76.1% | Not reported | 100% | 9% | 91% | Not reported | 21-30 | |||
| 2022-23 | Common Data Set not found online | ||||||||||
| 2023-24 ↗ | 15,934 | 76.3% | Not reported | 89% | 5% | 84% | 1105-1405 | 21-29 | |||
| 2024-25 ↗ | 18,146 | 77.6% | Not reported | 91% | 6% | 85% | 1100-1340 | 21-29 | |||
| 2025-26 ↗ | 22,858 | 83.6% | Not reported | 88.3% | 7.3% | 81% | 1000-1230 | 21-29 | |||
Waitlist admit rate
Share of students who stayed on the waitlist and were later admitted, by entering class.
Test policy in each Common Data Set
History only. The current policy is under Testing above.
- Fall 2025 Not reported2025-26 CDS
- Fall 2025 Not reported2024-25 CDS
- Fall 2025 Not reported2023-24 CDS
- No CDS found CDS not available2022-23 CDS
- Fall 2021 Recommended2021-22 CDS
- Fall 2020 Recommended2020-21 CDS
- Fall 2019 Required2019-20 CDS