List of Public Colleges by Acceptance Rate
New York Public Colleges Ranked by Lowest Acceptance Rate
List of Public Colleges by Acceptance Rate
Below is a ranking of the 75 public colleges in New York with the lowest acceptance rate for freshman undergraduate applications. United States Military Academy leads the list by accepting 10% of high school students that applied.
Data is reported for the 2017/18 academic year by the U.S. Department of Education National Center for Education Statistics.
| College | Acceptance Rate | |
|---|---|---|
| U |
United States Military Academy |
10% |
| B |
CUNY Bernard M Baruch College |
29% |
| L |
CUNY Lehman College |
35% |
| J |
CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice |
39% |
| B |
CUNY Brooklyn College |
40% |
| H |
CUNY Hunter College |
40% |
| B |
SUNY at Binghamton |
40% |
| S |
Stony Brook University |
42% |
| Q |
CUNY Queens College |
43% |
| Y |
CUNY York College |
44% |
| S |
State University of New York at New Paltz |
44% |
| C |
CUNY City College |
46% |
| F |
Fashion Institute of Technology |
47% |
| C |
SUNY College at Cortland |
48% |
| o |
SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry |
52% |
| B |
SUNY College at Brockport |
53% |
| P |
SUNY College at Plattsburgh |
53% |
| A |
SUNY at Albany |
54% |
| O |
SUNY College at Oswego |
54% |
| U |
University at Buffalo |
57% |
