United States Private Colleges Ranked by Lowest Acceptance Rate

List of Private Colleges by Acceptance Rate

Below is a ranking of the 1337 private colleges in the United States with the lowest acceptance rate for freshman undergraduate applications. Fairfax University of America leads the list by accepting 1% of high school students that applied.

List of United States Private Colleges Ranked by Lowest Acceptance Rate
School Acceptance Rate
Aquinas College

Nashville, TN

40%
Hampden Sydney College

Hampden-Sydney, VA

40%
Centra College

Lynchburg, VA

40%
Yeshiva Shaarei Torah of Rockland

Suffern, NY

40%
Loyola Marymount University

Los Angeles, CA

41%
American University

Washington, DC

41%
William Jewell College

Liberty, MO

41%
Baptist Memorial College of Health Sciences

Memphis, TN

41%
San Francisco Conservatory of Music

San Francisco, CA

42%
Illinois Wesleyan University

Bloomington, IL

42%
AIB College of Business

Des Moines, IA

42%
Saint Gregorys University

Shawnee, OK

42%
Emerson College

Boston, MA

43%
Belhaven University

Jackson, MS

43%
Hillsdale Free Will Baptist College

Moore, OK

43%
Allen University

Columbia, SC

43%
Kentucky Christian University

Grayson, KY

44%
Trinity Bible College

Ellendale, ND

44%