United States Public Colleges Ranked by Highest Acceptance Rate

List of Public Colleges by Acceptance Rate

Below is a ranking of the 656 public colleges in the United States with the highest acceptance rate for freshman undergraduate applications. Athens State University leads the list by accepting 100% of high school students that applied.

List of United States Public Colleges Ranked by Highest Acceptance Rate
School Acceptance Rate
Morehead State University

Morehead, KY

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82%
Wayne State University

Detroit, MI

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82%
University of Minnesota Duluth

Duluth, MN

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82%
SUNY College of Technology at Alfred

Alfred, NY

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82%
Miami University

Oxford, OH

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82%
University of Central Oklahoma

Edmond, OK

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82%
Francis Marion University

Florence, SC

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82%
South Carolina State University

Orangeburg, SC

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82%
Virginia Military Institute

Lexington, VA

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82%
University of Wisconsin River Falls

River Falls, WI

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82%
University of Arkansas Fort Smith

Fort Smith, AR

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81%
Colorado Mesa University

Grand Junction, CO

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81%
Eastern Connecticut State University

Willimantic, CT

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81%
Southern Connecticut State University

New Haven, CT

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81%
Western Connecticut State University

Danbury, CT

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81%
Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis

Indianapolis, IN

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81%
University of Louisville

Louisville, KY

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81%
Westfield State University

Westfield, MA

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81%