North Carolina Public Colleges Ranked by Lowest Acceptance Rate

List of Public Colleges by Acceptance Rate

Below is a ranking of the 74 public colleges in North Carolina with the lowest acceptance rate for freshman undergraduate applications. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill leads the list by accepting 23% 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.

List of North Carolina Public Colleges Ranked by Lowest Acceptance Rate
	College	Acceptance Rate
N	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	23%
N	University of North Carolina School of the Arts	38%
W	Western Carolina University	40%
N	North Carolina Central University	47%
N	North Carolina State University at Raleigh	47%
E	Elizabeth City State University	59%
N	North Carolina A & T State University	61%
N	University of North Carolina at Wilmington	61%
W	Winston Salem State University	65%
N	University of North Carolina at Charlotte	67%
F	Fayetteville State University	68%
A	Appalachian State University	69%
N	University of North Carolina at Pembroke	81%
E	East Carolina University	82%
N	University of North Carolina at Greensboro	84%
N	University of North Carolina at Asheville	94%
t	College of the Albemarle	100%
S	South Piedmont Community College	100%
A	Asheville Buncombe Technical Community College	100%
B	Beaufort County Community College	100%