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
Maine Maritime Academy

Castine, ME

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61%
University of South Carolina Columbia

Columbia, SC

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61%
West Virginia University Institute of Technology

Montgomery, WV

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61%
Delaware State University

Dover, DE

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62%
University of North Florida

Jacksonville, FL

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62%
Georgia State University

Atlanta, GA

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62%
Kennesaw State University

Kennesaw, Georgia

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62%
The College of New Jersey

Ewing, NJ

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62%
University of Alaska Southeast

Juneau, AK

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63%
University of California Riverside

Riverside, CA

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63%
University of California Santa Cruz

Santa Cruz, CA

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63%
Fort Valley State University

Fort Valley, GA

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63%
Texas A&M University College Station

College Station, TX

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63%
SUNY at Geneseo

Geneseo, NY

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64%
University of South Alabama

Mobile, AL

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65%
University of Delaware

Newark, DE

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65%
Rutgers University New Brunswick

New Brunswick, NJ

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65%
The University of Texas at Dallas

Richardson, TX

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65%