New York Private Colleges Ranked by Lowest Acceptance Rate

List of Private Colleges by Acceptance Rate

Below is a ranking of the 143 private colleges in New York with the lowest acceptance rate for freshman undergraduate applications. Columbia University in the City of New York leads the list by accepting 6% 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 New York Private Colleges Ranked by Lowest Acceptance Rate
	College	Acceptance Rate
C	Columbia University in the City of New York New York, NY	6%
J	The Juilliard School New York, NY	8%
C	Cornell University Ithaca, NY	11%
B	Barnard College New York, NY	14%
C	Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art New York, NY	16%
N	New York University New York, NY	20%
H	Hamilton College Clinton, NY	21%
N	New York School of Interior Design New York, NY	22%
A	American Musical and Dramatic Academy New York, NY	24%
C	Colgate University Hamilton, NY	25%
V	Vassar College Poughkeepsie, NY	25%
S	Skidmore College Saratoga Springs, NY	27%
R	University of Rochester Rochester, NY	29%
S	Saint Elizabeth College of Nursing Utica, New York	33%
M	Manhattan School of Music New York, NY	38%
U	Union College Schenectady, NY	39%
M	Maria College of Albany Albany, NY	40%
D	Davis College Johnson City, NY	42%
R	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY	43%
F	Fordham University Bronx, NY	46%