Minnesota State University-Mankato SAT and ACT scores
Mankato, Minnesota Public 11,703 undergraduates
ACT composite
21-25
middle 50%, median 23, 5% submitted
Admission rate
88.4%
reported to IPEDS
How to read these numbers
The middle 50 percent range means a quarter of submitting students scored below the lower number and a quarter scored above the higher one. Being inside the range does not predict admission, and being below it does not rule it out.
The ACT range in SAT terms
Using the official 2018 concordance, an ACT 21 concords to roughly SAT 1080 and an ACT 25 to roughly SAT 1210. That comes with published standard errors of plus or minus 2 ACT points and plus or minus 80 SAT points, and the table predates both current tests. The converter explains the caveats.
Working out where you stand
If you have a practice test rather than an official score, the SAT score calculator converts it using that test's own official table, and the score needed calculator works backwards from a target to the raw score it takes.
For what these numbers mean in national terms rather than at one institution, see the percentile tables and what counts as a good score.
Whether scores are required here
This page does not state Minnesota State University-Mankato's current testing policy. The policy field in the federal data is self-reported and lags real changes, sometimes by a full admissions cycle, and several universities have reinstated requirements recently.
Check Minnesota State University-Mankato's own admissions pages for the cycle you are applying in. Their site is mnsu.edu. Our guide covers the current landscape, with the same warning.
Sources
- Score ranges and admission rate: College Scorecard, Most Recent Institution-Level Data, US Department of Education. Fall 2024 cohort, released 2026-06-10. Retrieved 2026-08-27.
- Score submission percentages: IPEDS Admissions (ADM) 2023, NCES. Fall 2023 cohort. Retrieved 2026-08-27. College Scorecard does not carry this field, which is why the two are joined.
The two sources have different vintages, one year apart. That is stated rather than smoothed over, because a submission percentage from a different cohort than the score range is a real limitation of the joined data.
Read next
- What is a good SAT score Percentile anchors, class of 2025 data, and why the answer depends on your college list.
- SAT percentiles explained Three different percentile systems, and why the one on your report has no lookup table.
- Score Choice and superscoring are not the same thing Score Choice decides what you send. Superscoring is what the college does with it.
Common questions
- What ACT score do you need for Minnesota State University-Mankato?
- The middle 50 percent of enrolled students who submitted an ACT scored 21 to 25 on the composite. 5 percent of enrolled students submitted an ACT score.
- Why is there no single SAT total range on this page?
- Because neither of the sources publishes one. The 25th percentile of a total is not the sum of the two section 25th percentiles, so adding them together would overstate the spread. The sections are shown separately, which is what the data actually supports.
- How selective is Minnesota State University-Mankato?
- The reported admission rate is 88.4 percent. Admission rates and score ranges describe different things, and a score inside the published range is not by itself a prediction of admission.
- How current is this data?
- Score ranges come from the College Scorecard release of 2026-08, covering the Fall 2024 cohort, released 2026-06-10. Submission percentages come from IPEDS, Fall 2023 cohort. The two have different vintages and are labelled separately on this page.
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