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
Delaware State University

Dover, DE

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62%
University of North Florida

Jacksonville, FL

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62%
Georgia State University

Atlanta, GA

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62%
Kennesaw State University

Kennesaw, Georgia

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62%
The College of New Jersey

Ewing, NJ

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62%
Maine Maritime Academy

Castine, ME

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61%
University of South Carolina Columbia

Columbia, SC

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61%
West Virginia University Institute of Technology

Montgomery, WV

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61%
Colorado School of Mines

Golden, CO

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60%
Southern University at New Orleans

New Orleans, LA

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60%
Dickinson State University

Dickinson, ND

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60%
University of Vermont

Burlington, VT

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60%
Florida International University

Miami, FL

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59%
Purdue University Calumet Campus

Hammond, IN

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59%
University of Michigan Dearborn

Dearborn, MI

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59%
CUNY York College

Jamaica, NY

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59%
State University of New York at New Paltz

New Paltz, NY

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59%
University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Little Rock, AR

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58%