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
The University of Tennessee Martin

Martin, TN

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87%
Midwestern State University

Wichita Falls, TX

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87%
University of Utah

Salt Lake City, UT

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87%
Norfolk State University

Norfolk, VA

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87%
Bluefield State College

Bluefield, WV

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87%
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh

Oshkosh, WI

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87%
University of Wisconsin Platteville

Platteville, WI

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87%
University of Connecticut Tri Campus

Waterbury, CT

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87%
University of Connecticut Avery Point

Groton, CT

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87%
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Birmingham, AL

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88%
California State University Bakersfield

Bakersfield, CA

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88%
Georgia College & State University

Milledgeville, GA

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88%
Haskell Indian Nations University

Lawrence, KS

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88%
University of Kansas

Lawrence, KS

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88%
Pittsburg State University

Pittsburg, KS

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88%
Michigan Technological University

Houghton, MI

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88%
Stockton University

Galloway, NJ

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88%
SUNY College of Technology at Delhi

Delhi, NY

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88%