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% |
