United States Public Colleges Ranked by Lowest Acceptance Rate

List of Public Colleges by Acceptance Rate

Below is a ranking of the 656 public colleges in the United States with the lowest acceptance rate for freshman undergraduate applications. University of California Los Angeles leads the list by accepting 9% of high school students that applied.

List of United States Public Colleges Ranked by Lowest Acceptance Rate
School Acceptance Rate
San Diego State University Imperial Valley Campus

Calexico, California

44%
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Champaign, IL

45%
Coppin State University

Baltimore, MD

45%
University of Maryland College Park

College Park, MD

45%
Truman State University

Kirksville, MO

45%
University of California Santa Cruz

Santa Cruz, CA

47%
Macon State College

Macon, Georgia

47%
North Carolina State University at Raleigh

Raleigh, NC

47%
The University of West Florida

Pensacola, FL

48%
CUNY Hunter College

New York, NY

48%
Texas A & M International University

Laredo, TX

48%
University of Washington Seattle Campus

Seattle, WA

48%
Chicago State University

Chicago, IL

49%
Stony Brook University

Stony Brook, NY

49%
University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Campus

Pittsburgh, PA

49%
University of Wisconsin Madison

Madison, WI

49%
Purdue University North Central Campus

Westville, IN

50%
CUNY Bernard M Baruch College

New York, NY

50%