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
University of South Carolina Beaufort

Bluffton, SC

 80%
University of Colorado Boulder

Boulder, CO

 81%
Florida Atlantic University

Boca Raton, FL

 81%
Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne

Fort Wayne, IN

 81%
University of Maryland Baltimore County

Baltimore, MD

 81%
University of Massachusetts Boston

Boston, MA

 81%
University of Minnesota Duluth

Duluth, MN

 81%
Missouri University of Science and Technology

Rolla, MO

 81%
Fayetteville State University

Fayetteville, NC

 81%
Youngstown State University

Youngstown, OH

 81%
Lincoln University of Pennsylvania

Lincoln University, PA

 81%
Penn State Fayette Eberly Campus

Uniontown, PA

 81%
The University of Texas at Arlington

Arlington, TX

 81%
Castleton State College

Castleton, VT

 81%
Colorado Mesa University

Grand Junction, CO

 82%
University of Illinois at Springfield

Springfield, IL

 82%
Indiana University Bloomington

Bloomington, IN

 82%
University of Louisville

Louisville, KY

 82%