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
North Carolina A & T State University

Greensboro, NC

56%
Northwestern Oklahoma State University

Alva, OK

56%
University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma

Chickasha, OK

56%
Florida Polytechnic University

Lakeland, Florida

56%
Governors State University

University Park, IL

57%
University of Minnesota Crookston

Crookston, MN

57%
Minnesota State University Moorhead

Moorhead, MN

57%
Virginia Tech

Blacksburg, VA

57%
Colorado School of Mines

Golden, CO

58%
Louisiana State University Alexandria

Alexandria, LA

58%
Maine Maritime Academy

Castine, ME

58%
State University of New York at New Paltz

New Paltz, NY

58%
Purdue University Calumet Campus

Hammond, IN

59%
CUNY York College

Jamaica, NY

59%
University of Montevallo

Montevallo, AL

60%
SUNY College at Cortland

Cortland, NY

60%
University of Vermont

Burlington, VT

60%
University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Little Rock, AR

61%