South Dakota Colleges Ranked by Lowest 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 University leads the list by accepting 65% 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 South Dakota Colleges Ranked by Lowest Acceptance Rate
	College	Acceptance Rate
A	Augustana University Sioux Falls, SD	65%
M	Mount Marty College Yankton, SD	69%
D	Dakota Wesleyan University Mitchell, SD	74%
D	Dakota State University Madison, SD	83%
S	South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Rapid City, SD	83%
S	University of South Dakota Vermillion, SD	86%
B	Black Hills State University Spearfish, SD	88%
N	Northern State University Aberdeen, SD	88%
S	University of Sioux Falls Sioux Falls, SD	91%
S	South Dakota State University Brookings, SD	92%
P	Presentation College Aberdeen, SD	97%
K	Kilian Community College Sioux Falls, SD	100%
L	Lake Area Technical Institute Watertown, SD	100%
M	Mitchell Technical Institute Mitchell, SD	100%
N	National American University Rapid City Rapid City, SD	100%
N	National American University Sioux Falls Sioux Falls, SD	100%
O	Oglala Lakota College Kyle, SD	100%
S	Sinte Gleska University Mission, SD	100%
S	Sisseton Wahpeton College Sisseton, SD	100%
S	Southeast Technical Institute Sioux Falls, SD	100%