California Colleges Ranked by Lowest Acceptance Rate

List of Colleges by Acceptance Rate

Below is a ranking of the 173 colleges in California with the lowest acceptance rate for freshman undergraduate applications. Minerva University leads the list by accepting 1% of high school students that applied.

List of California Colleges Ranked by Lowest Acceptance Rate
School Acceptance Rate
Biola University

La Mirada, CA

57%
Soka University of America

Aliso Viejo, CA

57%
Southern California Institute of Architecture

Los Angeles, CA

60%
Yeshiva Ohr Elchonon Chabad West Coast Talmudical Seminary

Los Angeles, CA

61%
Menlo College

Atherton, CA

62%
Woodbury University

Burbank, CA

63%
Cogswell College

Sunnyvale, CA

65%
William Jessup University

Rocklin, CA

66%
University of Saint Katherine

San Marcos, California

66%
Berkeley School of Theology

Berkeley, CA

67%
California State University Fullerton

Fullerton, CA

67%
University of California Riverside

Riverside, CA

69%
Concordia University Irvine

Irvine, CA

69%
San Francisco Bay University

Fremont, California

69%
Art Center College of Design

Pasadena, CA

71%
University of San Francisco

San Francisco, CA

71%
Chapman University

Orange, CA

73%
University of La Verne

La Verne, CA

74%