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
Kennesaw State University

Kennesaw, Georgia

 62%
Louisiana Tech University

Ruston, LA

 62%
University of Alaska Southeast

Juneau, AK

 63%
Northeastern Illinois University

Chicago, IL

 63%
Texas A & M University College Station

College Station, TX

 63%
Southern Arkansas University Main Campus

Magnolia, AR

 64%
Florida International University

Miami, FL

 64%
Eastern Kentucky University

Richmond, KY

 64%
University of Massachusetts Amherst

Amherst, MA

 64%
The College of New Jersey

Ewing, NJ

 64%
University of South Carolina Columbia

Columbia, SC

 64%
University of South Alabama

Mobile, AL

 65%
University of Alaska Anchorage

Anchorage, AK

 65%
Mississippi Valley State University

Itta Bena, MS

 65%
West Virginia University Institute of Technology

Montgomery, WV

 65%
University of Michigan Flint

Flint, MI

 66%
New Jersey Institute of Technology

Newark, NJ

 66%
Rutgers University New Brunswick

New Brunswick, NJ

 66%