United States Public Colleges Ranked by Lowest Acceptance Rate

List of Public Colleges by Acceptance Rate

Below is a ranking of the 656 public colleges in the United States with the lowest acceptance rate for freshman undergraduate applications. University of California Los Angeles leads the list by accepting 9% of high school students that applied.

List of United States Public Colleges Ranked by Lowest Acceptance Rate
School Acceptance Rate
Purdue University Northwest

Hammond, Indiana

73%
Eastern Connecticut State University

Willimantic, CT

74%
University of Delaware

Newark, DE

74%
University of Idaho

Moscow, ID

74%
Winona State University

Winona, MN

74%
Rutgers University Newark

Newark, NJ

74%
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology

Socorro, NM

74%
Elizabeth City State University

Elizabeth City, NC

74%
University of North Carolina at Asheville

Asheville, NC

74%
Southeastern Oklahoma State University

Durant, OK

74%
Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

Slippery Rock, PA

74%
The Evergreen State College

Olympia, WA

74%
West Liberty University

West Liberty, WV

74%
University of Wisconsin La Crosse

La Crosse, WI

74%
Florida Gulf Coast University

Fort Myers, FL

74%
University of Colorado Denver

Denver, CO

75%
Western Illinois University

Macomb, IL

75%
University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Lafayette, LA

75%