Private Colleges with the Lowest Acceptance Rate in California

List of Private Colleges by Acceptance Rate

Below is a ranking of the 134 private colleges in California with the lowest acceptance rate for freshman undergraduate applications. Stanford University leads the list by accepting 5% 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.

List of California Private Colleges Ranked by Lowest Acceptance Rate
	College	Acceptance Rate
S	Stanford University	5%
C	California Institute of Technology	8%
P	Pomona College	8%
C	Claremont McKenna College	10%
H	Harvey Mudd College	15%
P	Pitzer College	16%
S	University of Southern California	16%
C	California Institute of the Arts	24%
H	Hope International University	28%
L	Laguna College of Art and Design	33%
S	Scripps College	33%
F	FIDM/Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising San Francisco	37%
S	Soka University of America	37%
F	FIDM/Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising Los Angeles	39%
P	Pepperdine University	40%
O	Occidental College	42%
M	Menlo College	43%
S	San Francisco Conservatory of Music	44%
F	FIDM/Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising San Diego	45%
V	Vanguard University of Southern California	47%

California Private Colleges Ranked by Lowest Acceptance Rate

List of Private Colleges by Acceptance Rate