South Dakota Colleges Ranked by Lowest Acceptance Rate
List of Colleges by Acceptance Rate
List of Colleges by Acceptance Rate
Below is a ranking of the 24 colleges in South Dakota with the lowest acceptance rate for freshman undergraduate applications. Augustana College leads the list by accepting 65% 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| A |
Augustana College |
65% |
| M |
Mount Marty College |
69% |
| D |
Dakota Wesleyan University |
74% |
| D |
Dakota State University |
83% |
| S |
South Dakota School of Mines and Technology |
83% |
| S |
University of South Dakota |
86% |
| B |
Black Hills State University |
88% |
| N |
Northern State University |
88% |
| S |
University of Sioux Falls |
91% |
| S |
South Dakota State University |
92% |
| P |
Presentation College |
97% |
| K |
Kilian Community College |
100% |
| L |
Lake Area Technical Institute |
100% |
| M |
Mitchell Technical Institute |
100% |
| N |
National American University Rapid City |
100% |
| N |
National American University Sioux Falls |
100% |
| O |
Oglala Lakota College |
100% |
| S |
Sinte Gleska University |
100% |
| S |
Sisseton Wahpeton College |
100% |
| S |
Southeast Technical Institute |
100% |