North Carolina Private Colleges Ranked by Lowest Acceptance Rate

List of Private Colleges by Acceptance Rate

Below is a ranking of the 49 private colleges in North Carolina with the lowest acceptance rate for freshman undergraduate applications. Duke University leads the list by accepting 6% of high school students that applied.

List of North Carolina Private Colleges Ranked by Lowest Acceptance Rate
School Acceptance Rate
North Carolina Wesleyan College

Rocky Mount, NC

68%
Pfeiffer University

Misenheimer, NC

69%
Queens University of Charlotte

Charlotte, NC

71%
Meredith College

Raleigh, NC

73%
Johnson & Wales University Charlotte

Charlotte, NC

73%
Elon University

Elon, NC

74%
Mars Hill University

Mars Hill, NC

74%
Gardner Webb University

Boiling Springs, NC

75%
Mount Olive College

Mount Olive, NC

75%
Methodist University

Fayetteville, NC

76%
High Point University

High Point, NC

79%
Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary

Wake Forest, NC

80%
Lenoir Rhyne University

Hickory, NC

83%
Greensboro College

Greensboro, NC

84%
Guilford College

Greensboro, NC

84%
Warren Wilson College

Swannanoa, NC

84%
Wingate University

Wingate, NC

86%
Chowan University

Murfreesboro, NC

87%