North Carolina Colleges Ranked by Lowest 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 2018/19 academic year by the U.S. Department of Education National Center for Education Statistics.

List of North Carolina Colleges Ranked by Lowest Acceptance Rate
	College	Acceptance Rate
D	Duke University Durham, NC	9%
D	Davidson College Davidson, NC	19%
N	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC	23%
P	Piedmont International University Winston Salem, NC	24%
W	Wake Forest University Winston Salem, NC	29%
N	University of North Carolina School of the Arts Winston-Salem, NC	38%
S	Salem College Winston Salem, NC	39%
B	Barton College Wilson, NC	40%
W	Western Carolina University Cullowhee, NC	40%
C	Cabarrus College of Health Sciences Concord, NC	41%
S	St. Andrews University Laurinburg, NC	41%
L	Livingstone College Salisbury, NC	42%
G	Greensboro College Greensboro, NC	44%
M	Mid Atlantic Christian University Elizabeth City, NC	44%
B	Brevard College Brevard, NC	46%
J	Johnson C Smith University Charlotte, NC	46%
N	North Carolina Central University Durham, NC	47%
N	North Carolina State University at Raleigh Raleigh, NC	47%
G	Gardner Webb University Boiling Springs, NC	48%
C	Catawba College Salisbury, NC	52%