United States Public Colleges Ranked by Lowest Acceptance Rate

List of Public Colleges by Acceptance Rate

Below is a ranking of the 1597 public colleges in the United States with the lowest acceptance rate for freshman undergraduate applications. United States Naval Academy leads the list by accepting 8% of high school students that applied.

List of United States Public Colleges Ranked by Lowest Acceptance Rate
School Acceptance Rate
United States Naval Academy

Annapolis, Maryland

8%
University of California Los Angeles

Los Angeles, CA

11%
United States Military Academy

West Point, New York

11%
United States Air Force Academy

USAFA, Colorado

12%
University of California Berkeley

Berkeley, CA

14%
Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus

Atlanta, GA

16%
United States Coast Guard Academy

New London, Connecticut

19%
University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, MI

20%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, NC

20%
University of Virginia Main Campus

Charlottesville, VA

21%
University of California Irvine

Irvine, CA

29%
University of California Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara, CA

29%
The University of Texas at Austin

Austin, TX

29%
University of Florida

Gainesville, FL

30%
University of North Carolina School of the Arts

Winston-Salem, NC

30%
California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo

San Luis Obispo, CA

33%
The University of Montana Western

Dillon, MT

33%
Eastern New Mexico University Main Campus

Portales, NM

33%