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
University of Missouri St Louis

Saint Louis, MO

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57%
CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice

New York, NY

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57%
Virginia Tech

Blacksburg, VA

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57%
University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Little Rock, AR

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58%
University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff

Pine Bluff, AR

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58%
University of Massachusetts Amherst

Amherst, MA

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58%
University of Minnesota Crookston

Crookston, MN

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58%
CUNY City College

New York, NY

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58%
Fashion Institute of Technology

New York, NY

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58%
Florida International University

Miami, FL

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59%
Purdue University Calumet Campus

Hammond, IN

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59%
University of Michigan Dearborn

Dearborn, MI

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59%
CUNY York College

Jamaica, NY

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59%
State University of New York at New Paltz

New Paltz, NY

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59%
Colorado School of Mines

Golden, CO

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60%
Southern University at New Orleans

New Orleans, LA

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60%
Dickinson State University

Dickinson, ND

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60%
University of Vermont

Burlington, VT

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60%