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
Old Dominion University

Norfolk, VA

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91%
Radford University

Radford, VA

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91%
Western Washington University

Bellingham, WA

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91%
California State University Los Angeles

Los Angeles, CA

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92%
Indiana State University

Terre Haute, IN

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92%
Fort Hays State University

Hays, KS

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92%
University of Kentucky

Lexington, KY

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92%
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts

North Adams, MA

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92%
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

North Dartmouth, MA

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92%
University of North Carolina at Pembroke

Pembroke, NC

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92%
Oregon Institute of Technology

Klamath Falls, OR

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92%
Penn State Beaver

Monaca, PA

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92%
Penn State Fayette  Eberly Campus

Uniontown, PA

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92%
Penn State Abington

Abington, PA

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92%
Penn State York

York, PA

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92%
Texas A&M University Kingsville

Kingsville, TX

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92%
The University of Texas at Tyler

Tyler, TX

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92%
Eastern Washington University

Cheney, WA

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92%