California Private Colleges Ranked by Lowest Acceptance Rate

List of Private Colleges by Acceptance Rate

Below is a ranking of the 109 private colleges in California with the lowest acceptance rate for freshman undergraduate applications. Minerva University leads the list by accepting 1% of high school students that applied.

List of California Private Colleges Ranked by Lowest Acceptance Rate
School Acceptance Rate
Pepperdine University

Malibu, CA

49%
Santa Clara University

Santa Clara, CA

52%
University of San Diego

San Diego, CA

53%
The Chicago School of Professional Psychology at Los Angeles

Los Angeles, CA

54%
Biola University

La Mirada, CA

57%
Soka University of America

Aliso Viejo, CA

57%
Southern California Institute of Architecture

Los Angeles, CA

60%
Yeshiva Ohr Elchonon Chabad West Coast Talmudical Seminary

Los Angeles, CA

61%
Menlo College

Atherton, CA

62%
Woodbury University

Burbank, CA

63%
William Jessup University

Rocklin, CA

66%
University of Saint Katherine

San Marcos, California

66%
Berkeley School of Theology

Berkeley, CA

67%
Concordia University Irvine

Irvine, CA

69%
San Francisco Bay University

Fremont, California

69%
Art Center College of Design

Pasadena, CA

71%
University of San Francisco

San Francisco, CA

71%
Chapman University

Orange, CA

73%