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
Mississippi Valley State University

Itta Bena, MS

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51%
SUNY College at Cortland

Cortland, NY

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51%
Ohio State University

Columbus, OH

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51%
Minnesota State University Moorhead

Moorhead, MN

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53%
University of Montevallo

Montevallo, AL

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54%
University of Connecticut

Storrs, CT

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54%
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology

Socorro, NM

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54%
CUNY Brooklyn College

Brooklyn, NY

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54%
CUNY Hunter College

New York, NY

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54%
Penn State Main Campus

University Park, PA

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54%
Augusta State University

Augusta, Georgia

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55%
Eastern New Mexico University Main Campus

Portales, NM

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55%
CUNY Lehman College

Bronx, NY

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55%
Texas A&M University Galveston

Galveston, Texas

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55%
North Georgia College & State University

Dahlonega, Georgia

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56%
University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma

Chickasha, OK

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56%
Florida Polytechnic University

Lakeland, Florida

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56%
The University of West Florida

Pensacola, FL

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57%