Mississippi Public Colleges Ranked by Lowest Acceptance Rate

List of Public Colleges by Acceptance Rate

Below is a ranking of the 23 public colleges in Mississippi with the lowest acceptance rate for freshman undergraduate applications. Mississippi State University leads the list by accepting 57% of high school students that applied.

Data is reported for the 2018/19 academic year by the U.S. Department of Education National Center for Education Statistics.

List of Mississippi Public Colleges Ranked by Lowest Acceptance Rate
	College	Acceptance Rate
M	Mississippi State University Mississippi State, MS	57%
J	Jackson State University Jackson, MS	69%
D	Delta State University Cleveland, MS	85%
M	Mississippi Valley State University Itta Bena, MS	86%
M	University of Mississippi University, MS	88%
A	Alcorn State University Alcorn State, MS	89%
M	Mississippi University for Women Columbus, MS	98%
S	University of Southern Mississippi Hattiesburg, MS	98%
C	Coahoma Community College Clarksdale, MS	100%
C	Copiah Lincoln Community College Wesson, MS	100%
E	East Central Community College Decatur, MS	100%
E	East Mississippi Community College Scooba, MS	100%
H	Hinds Community College Raymond, MS	100%
H	Holmes Community College Goodman, MS	100%
I	Itawamba Community College Fulton, MS	100%
J	Jones County Junior College Ellisville, MS	100%
M	Meridian Community College Meridian, MS	100%
M	Mississippi Delta Community College Moorhead, MS	100%
M	Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College Perkinston, MS	100%
N	Northeast Mississippi Community College Booneville, MS	100%