Tennessee Private Colleges Ranked by Lowest Acceptance Rate

List of Private Colleges by Acceptance Rate

Below is a ranking of the 41 private colleges in Tennessee with the lowest acceptance rate for freshman undergraduate applications. Vanderbilt University leads the list by accepting 7% of high school students that applied.

List of Tennessee Private Colleges Ranked by Lowest Acceptance Rate
School Acceptance Rate
Vanderbilt University

Nashville, TN

7%
Visible Music College

Memphis, TN

20%
O'More College of Design

Franklin, TN

31%
Aquinas College

Nashville, TN

40%
Baptist Memorial College of Health Sciences

Memphis, TN

41%
Sewanee The University of the South

Sewanee, TN

52%
Union University

Jackson, TN

53%
Rhodes College

Memphis, TN

54%
King College

Bristol, TN

61%
Tennessee Wesleyan College

Athens, TN

61%
Johnson University

Knoxville, TN

63%
Cumberland University

Lebanon, TN

66%
Southern Adventist University

Collegedale, TN

66%
Milligan College

Milligan College, Tennessee

67%
Milligan University

Milligan, TN

67%
Maryville College

Maryville, TN

70%
Lipscomb University

Nashville, TN

71%
Fisk University

Nashville, TN

71%