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
Wayne State University

Detroit, MI

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82%
University of Minnesota Duluth

Duluth, MN

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82%
SUNY College of Technology at Alfred

Alfred, NY

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82%
Miami University

Oxford, OH

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82%
University of Central Oklahoma

Edmond, OK

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82%
Francis Marion University

Florence, SC

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82%
South Carolina State University

Orangeburg, SC

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82%
Virginia Military Institute

Lexington, VA

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82%
University of Wisconsin River Falls

River Falls, WI

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82%
University of Colorado Boulder

Boulder, CO

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83%
Valdosta State University

Valdosta, GA

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83%
Indiana University Southeast

New Albany, IN

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83%
Louisiana State University Shreveport

Shreveport, LA

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83%
Morgan State University

Baltimore, MD

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83%
Towson University

Towson, MD

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83%
University of Massachusetts Boston

Boston, MA

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83%
CUNY Medgar Evers College

Brooklyn, NY

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83%
SUNY College of Agriculture and Technology at Cobleskill

Cobleskill, NY

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83%