New York Public Colleges Ranked by Highest Acceptance Rate

List of Public Colleges by Acceptance Rate

Below is a ranking of the 41 public colleges in New York with the highest acceptance rate for freshman undergraduate applications. CUNY College of Staten Island leads the list by accepting 100% of high school students that applied.

List of New York Public Colleges Ranked by Highest Acceptance Rate
School Acceptance Rate
Farmingdale State College

Farmingdale, NY

73%
SUNY College at Oneonta

Oneonta, NY

73%
SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry

Syracuse, NY

70%
SUNY College at Plattsburgh

Plattsburgh, NY

70%
CUNY Queens College

Flushing, NY

69%
SUNY at Albany

Albany, NY

68%
University at Buffalo

Buffalo, NY

68%
SUNY College at Brockport

Brockport, NY

68%
CUNY City College

New York, NY

67%
SUNY College at Cortland

Cortland, NY

60%
CUNY York College

Jamaica, NY

59%
State University of New York at New Paltz

New Paltz, NY

58%
CUNY Brooklyn College

Brooklyn, NY

55%
CUNY Lehman College

Bronx, NY

55%
Fashion Institute of Technology

New York, NY

53%
CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice

New York, NY

51%
CUNY Bernard M Baruch College

New York, NY

50%
Stony Brook University

Stony Brook, NY

49%