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
Central Michigan University

Mount Pleasant, MI

79%
University of Missouri Columbia

Columbia, MO

79%
University of Nebraska Lincoln

Lincoln, NE

79%
Bowling Green State University Main Campus

Bowling Green, OH

79%
Coastal Carolina University

Conway, SC

79%
University of South Carolina Upstate

Spartanburg, SC

79%
Dakota State University

Madison, SD

79%
Angelo State University

San Angelo, TX

79%
University of North Texas

Denton, TX

79%
Oregon State University Cascades Campus

Bend, OR

79%
The University of Alabama

Tuscaloosa, AL

80%
Northern Arizona University

Flagstaff, AZ

80%
Georgia College & State University

Milledgeville, GA

80%
University of West Georgia

Carrollton, GA

80%
Indiana University Northwest

Gary, IN

80%
SUNY Maritime College

Throggs Neck, NY

80%
University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Charlotte, NC

80%
Temple University

Philadelphia, PA

80%