California Private Colleges Ranked by Lowest Acceptance Rate

List of Private Colleges by Acceptance Rate

Below is a ranking of the 83 private colleges in California with the lowest acceptance rate for freshman undergraduate applications. Stanford University leads the list by accepting 4% 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 California Private Colleges Ranked by Lowest Acceptance Rate
	College	Acceptance Rate
S	Stanford University Stanford, CA	4%
C	California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA	7%
P	Pomona College Claremont, CA	8%
C	Claremont McKenna College Claremont, CA	9%
P	Pitzer College Claremont, CA	13%
S	University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA	13%
H	Harvey Mudd College Claremont, CA	14%
K	King's University Van Nuys, TX	22%
C	California Institute of the Arts Valencia, CA	23%
S	Scripps College Claremont, CA	24%
H	Hope International University Fullerton, CA	29%
P	Pepperdine University Malibu, CA	36%
C	Charles R Drew University of Medicine and Science Los Angeles, CA	37%
O	Occidental College Los Angeles, CA	37%
S	Soka University of America Aliso Viejo, CA	39%
V	Vanguard University of Southern California Costa Mesa, CA	40%
M	Menlo College Atherton, CA	45%
S	San Francisco Conservatory of Music San Francisco, CA	45%
L	La Sierra University Riverside, CA	47%
L	Loyola Marymount University Los Angeles, CA	47%