North Carolina Colleges Ranked by Lowest Acceptance Rate
List of Colleges by Acceptance Rate
List of Colleges by Acceptance Rate
Below is a ranking of the 133 colleges in North Carolina with the lowest acceptance rate for freshman undergraduate applications. Duke University leads the list by accepting 9% 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| D |
Duke University |
9% |
| D |
Davidson College |
19% |
| N |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
23% |
| P |
Piedmont International University |
24% |
| W |
Wake Forest University |
29% |
| N |
University of North Carolina School of the Arts |
38% |
| S |
Salem College |
39% |
| B |
Barton College |
40% |
| W |
Western Carolina University |
40% |
| C |
Cabarrus College of Health Sciences |
41% |
| S |
St. Andrews University |
41% |
| L |
Livingstone College |
42% |
| G |
Greensboro College |
44% |
| M |
Mid Atlantic Christian University |
44% |
| B |
Brevard College |
46% |
| J |
Johnson C Smith University |
46% |
| N |
North Carolina Central University |
47% |
| N |
North Carolina State University at Raleigh |
47% |
| G |
Gardner Webb University |
48% |
| C |
Catawba College |
52% |
