Pennsylvania Colleges Ranked by Lowest Acceptance Rate
List of Colleges by Acceptance Rate
List of Colleges by Acceptance Rate
Below is a ranking of the 187 colleges in Pennsylvania with the lowest acceptance rate for freshman undergraduate applications. University of Pennsylvania leads the list by accepting 8% 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| P |
University of Pennsylvania |
8% |
| S |
Swarthmore College |
9% |
| C |
Carnegie Mellon University |
17% |
| H |
Haverford College |
19% |
| L |
Lehigh University |
22% |
| L |
Lafayette College |
29% |
| V |
Villanova University |
29% |
| B |
Bucknell University |
33% |
| B |
Bryn Mawr College |
34% |
| F |
Franklin and Marshall College |
35% |
| P |
Pennsylvania College of Art and Design |
44% |
| G |
Gettysburg College |
45% |
| D |
Dickinson College |
49% |
| L |
Lincoln University of Pennsylvania |
49% |
| P |
University of Pittsburgh Bradford |
49% |
| H |
Hussian School of Art |
50% |
| M |
Metropolitan Career Center Computer Technology Institute |
50% |
| P |
University of Pittsburgh Titusville |
50% |
| B |
Baptist Bible College and Seminary |
51% |
| M |
Moore College of Art and Design |
52% |