United States Colleges Ranked by Lowest Acceptance Rate

List of Colleges by Acceptance Rate

Below is a ranking of the 2357 colleges in the United States with the lowest acceptance rate for freshman undergraduate applications. Fairfax University of America leads the list by accepting 1% of high school students that applied.

List of United States Colleges Ranked by Lowest Acceptance Rate
School Acceptance Rate
Fairfax University of America

Fairfax, Virginia

1%
Minerva University

San Francisco, California

1%
California Institute of Technology

Pasadena, CA

3%
Harvard University

Cambridge, MA

3%
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge, MA

4%
Columbia University in the City of New York

New York, NY

4%
Stanford University

Stanford, CA

4%
Yale University

New Haven, CT

5%
University of Chicago

Chicago, IL

5%
Brown University

Providence, RI

5%
Dartmouth College

Hanover, NH

6%
Princeton University

Princeton, NJ

6%
Duke University

Durham, NC

6%
Pomona College

Claremont, CA

7%
The Chicago School of Professional Psychology at Chicago

Chicago, IL

7%
Northwestern University

Evanston, IL

7%
Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore, MD

7%
Amherst College

Amherst, MA

7%