Iowa Colleges Ranked by Lowest Acceptance Rate
List of Colleges by Acceptance Rate
List of Colleges by Acceptance Rate
Below is a ranking of the 62 colleges in Iowa with the lowest acceptance rate for freshman undergraduate applications. Grinnell College leads the list by accepting 24% of high school students that applied.
Data is reported for the 2017/18 academic year by the U.S. Department of Education National Center for Education Statistics.
| College | Acceptance Rate | |
|---|---|---|
| G |
Grinnell CollegeGrinnell, IA |
24% |
| A |
AIB College of BusinessDes Moines, IA |
42% |
| U |
Upper Iowa UniversityFayette, IA |
50% |
| W |
William Penn UniversityOskaloosa, IA |
55% |
| B |
Buena Vista UniversityStorm Lake, IA |
57% |
| G |
Graceland University LamoniLamoni, IA |
58% |
| I |
Iowa Wesleyan CollegeMount Pleasant, IA |
58% |
| M |
Morningside CollegeSioux City, IA |
58% |
| C |
Cornell CollegeMount Vernon, IA |
61% |
| F |
Faith Baptist Bible College and Theological SeminaryAnkeny, IA |
62% |
| L |
Luther CollegeDecorah, IA |
63% |
| M |
Mount Mercy UniversityCedar Rapids, IA |
63% |
| S |
Saint Ambrose UniversityDavenport, IA |
63% |
| C |
Coe CollegeCedar Rapids, IA |
67% |
| D |
Drake UniversityDes Moines, IA |
68% |
| C |
Central CollegePella, IA |
70% |
| N |
Northwestern CollegeOrange City, IA |
71% |
| D |
Dordt CollegeSioux Center, IA |
73% |
| D |
University of DubuqueDubuque, IA |
73% |
| W |
Waldorf CollegeForest City, IA |
75% |