California Private Colleges Ranked by Lowest Acceptance Rate
List of Private Colleges by 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 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.
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% |
S |
Soka University of America |
37% |
P |
Pepperdine University |
40% |
O |
Occidental College |
42% |
M |
Menlo College |
43% |
S |
San Francisco Conservatory of Music |
44% |
V |
Vanguard University of Southern California |
47% |
L |
University of La Verne |
48% |
L |
La Sierra University |
48% |
C |
Columbia College Hollywood |
50% |