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
Kean University

Union, NJ

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77%
University of North Dakota

Grand Forks, ND

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77%
University of Oklahoma Norman Campus

Norman, OK

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77%
University of Rhode Island

Kingston, RI

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77%
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Chattanooga, TN

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77%
University of Houston Victoria

Victoria, TX

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77%
Florida Gulf Coast University

Fort Myers, FL

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77%
University of Colorado Denver

Denver, CO

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78%
Eastern Kentucky University

Richmond, KY

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78%
Rowan University

Glassboro, NJ

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78%
Rutgers University Camden

Camden, NJ

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78%
SUNY Polytechnic Institute

Utica, NY

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78%
Lincoln University of Pennsylvania

Lincoln University, PA

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78%
Southern Polytechnic State University

Marietta, Georgia

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79%
University of Idaho

Moscow, ID

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79%
University of Illinois at Chicago

Chicago, IL

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79%
Kansas State University

Manhattan, KS

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79%
University of Southern Maine

Portland, ME

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79%