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
Portland State University

Portland, OR

93%
Penn State Beaver

Monaca, PA

93%
Penn State Abington

Abington, PA

93%
Penn State York

York, PA

93%
Radford University

Radford, VA

93%
Central Washington University

Ellensburg, WA

93%
Western Washington University

Bellingham, WA

93%
Arkansas Tech University

Russellville, AR

94%
San Francisco State University

San Francisco, CA

94%
Sonoma State University

Rohnert Park, CA

94%
University of Southern Indiana

Evansville, IN

94%
Southern University at New Orleans

New Orleans, LA

94%
University of Maine at Farmington

Farmington, ME

94%
University of Maine

Orono, ME

94%
Michigan Technological University

Houghton, MI

94%
East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania

East Stroudsburg, PA

94%
Penn State Worthington Scranton

Dunmore, PA

94%
Penn State Lehigh Valley

Center Valley, PA

94%