Columbia Admissions Early & Regular Acceptance Rates & Stats

Columbia Early Admissions

Columbia received 6,435 early applications for the Class of 2025 compared to 4,318 last year. The rate of admission dropped to slightly over 10 percent with an admission of 650 students.

Columbia University Early Round Acceptance

	Early Applications Accepted	Total Early Applications Received	Early Acceptance Rate	Estimated Overall Enrollment	% of Class Filled by Early Admissions
2025	650	6,435	10.10%	1,400	46.43
2024	650	4,318	15.05%	1,400	46.43
2023	650	4,461	14.57%	1,400	46.43
2022	650	4,085	15.91%	1,400	46.43
2021	650	4,086	15.91%	1,400	46.43
2020	620	3,520	17.61%	1,400	44.29
2019	600	3,373	17.79%	1,400	42.89
2018	650	3,296	19.72%	1,400	46.43
2017	600	3,126	19.19%
2016	605	3,088	19.59%
2015	632	3,229	19.57%
2014	631	2,995	21.07%
2013	594	2,945	20.17%

Columbia Regular Decision

For the Class of 2025, Columbia accepted 2,218 students from 60,551 applications, a 51 percent increase from last year. The acceptance rate of 3.66 percent is below last year’s 6.15 percent when Columbia admitted 2,465 applicants from 40,084 applications. For this admission cycle, we estimate that Columbia received 6,435 early decision applications and accepted 650 students for an admission rate just above 10 percent.

Columbia University Admissions Early & Regular Decision

	Early & Regular Decision Applications Accepted	Early & Regular Decision Applications Received	Early & Regular Decision Admissions Acceptance Rate
2025	2,218	60,551	3.66%
2024	2,465	40,084	6.15%
2023	2,190	42,569	5.14%
2022	2,214	40,203	5.51%
2021	2,185	37,389	5.84%
2020	2,193	36,292	6.04%
2019	2,228	36,250	6.15%
2018	2,291	32,952	6.95%
2017	2,311	33,531	6.89%
2016	2,363	31,851	7.42%
2015	2,419	34,929	6.93%
2014	2,472	26,178	9.44%
2013	2,501	25,427	9.84%
2012	2,418	22,585	10.71%