New York Colleges Ranked by Lowest Acceptance Rate

List of Colleges by Acceptance Rate

Below is a ranking of the 188 colleges in New York with the lowest acceptance rate for freshman undergraduate applications. Columbia University in the City of New York leads the list by accepting 4% of high school students that applied.

List of New York Colleges Ranked by Lowest Acceptance Rate
School Acceptance Rate
SUNY College at Oswego

Oswego, NY

83%
SUNY College at Potsdam

Potsdam, NY

83%
D'Youville College

Buffalo, NY

84%
LIM College

New York, NY

84%
Manhattanville College

Purchase, NY

84%
Nazareth College

Rochester, NY

84%
St. Francis College

Brooklyn Heights, NY

84%
SUNY College of Agriculture and Technology at Cobleskill

Cobleskill, NY

84%
DeVry College of New York

New York, New York

84%
Paul Smiths College of Arts and Science

Paul Smiths, NY

85%
St John's University New York

Queens, NY

85%
SUNY at Fredonia

Fredonia, NY

85%
Beth Hamedrash Shaarei Yosher Institute

Brooklyn, NY

86%
Mercy College

Dobbs Ferry, NY

86%
SUNY College at Buffalo

Buffalo, NY

86%
Jamestown Business College

Jamestown, NY

87%
SUNY Morrisville

Morrisville, NY

87%
CUNY Medgar Evers College

Brooklyn, NY

88%