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 College |
24% |
| A |
AIB College of Business |
42% |
| U |
Upper Iowa University |
50% |
| W |
William Penn University |
55% |
| B |
Buena Vista University |
57% |
| G |
Graceland University Lamoni |
58% |
| I |
Iowa Wesleyan College |
58% |
| M |
Morningside College |
58% |
| C |
Cornell College |
61% |
| F |
Faith Baptist Bible College and Theological Seminary |
62% |
| L |
Luther College |
63% |
| M |
Mount Mercy University |
63% |
| S |
Saint Ambrose University |
63% |
| C |
Coe College |
67% |
| D |
Drake University |
68% |
| C |
Central College |
70% |
| N |
Northwestern College |
71% |
| D |
Dordt College |
73% |
| D |
University of Dubuque |
73% |
| W |
Waldorf College |
75% |