Popular Easy-Admission U.S. Colleges
CollegeSimply highlights 1151 four-year colleges that accept 75% or more of applicants. If your GPA and test scores fall in their typical ranges, these schools are strong safety options. The list focuses on colleges that draw the most student interest online.
Leading examples include Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona, accepting 90% of applicants. Also frequently researched: Michigan State University, The University of Alabama and University of Kentucky.
Use the filters below to narrow by GPA, SAT, or ACT and see your estimated admission chance. For the highest academic quality among easy-admission schools, see best-ranked colleges with high acceptance rates. For schools with the highest acceptance rates regardless of popularity, see highest acceptance rate colleges.
Marietta College
- Private 4 Year
- Marietta, OH
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- 79% acceptance rate
Marietta is a private liberal arts college known for undergraduate petroleum engineering and environmental science. The campus sits in a historic town along the Ohio River.
- SAT Range 1040-1200
- Avg GPA 3.54
- Net Price $22,007
Eastern Connecticut State University
- Public 4 Year
- Willimantic, CT
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- 83% acceptance rate
Eastern is a public liberal arts university known for undergraduate education and environmental earth science. The residential campus sits in the small town of Willimantic in eastern Connecticut.
- SAT Range 1070-1260
- Avg GPA 3.4
- Net Price $21,512
CUNY New York City College of Technology
- Public 4 Year
- Brooklyn, NY
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5.0 | 1 reviews
- 80% acceptance rate
- Sep 1 application deadline
City Tech is a public CUNY college of technology known for undergraduate architecture, engineering technology, and hospitality management. The urban campus is in Downtown Brooklyn.
- SAT Range 900-1140
- Avg GPA NA
- Net Price $5,794
Keystone College
- Private 4 Year
- La Plume, PA
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4.0 | 1 reviews
- 85% acceptance rate
Keystone is a small private college known for undergraduate environmental science, wildlife biology, and culinary arts. The rural campus sits in northeastern Pennsylvania near the Scranton area.
- SAT Range 910-1130
- Avg GPA 3.0
- Net Price $21,952
Harris Stowe State University
- Public 4 Year
- Saint Louis, MO
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- 100% acceptance rate
Harris-Stowe is a small public HBCU known for undergraduate teacher education. The urban campus is in St. Louis.
- SAT Range -
- Avg GPA 3.04
- Net Price $9,418
Ashland University
- Private 4 Year
- Ashland, OH
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- 76% acceptance rate
Ashland is a private university known for undergraduate education, nursing, and business. The residential campus sits in the small college city of Ashland in north-central Ohio.
- SAT Range 1035-1208
- Avg GPA 3.54
- Net Price $22,610
Columbia College
- Private 4 Year
- Columbia, MO
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- 100% acceptance rate
Columbia College is a private college known for undergraduate business, education, and criminal justice. The campus is in the college town of Columbia, also home to the University of Missouri.
- SAT Range -
- Avg GPA 3.59
- Net Price $21,530
Embry Riddle Aeronautical University Prescott
- Private 4 Year
- Prescott, AZ
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4.0 | 2 reviews
- 77% acceptance rate
Embry-Riddle Prescott is a private university known for undergraduate aeronautical science, aerospace engineering, and aviation. The mountain campus sits outside downtown Prescott in Arizona high country.
- SAT Range 1140-1370
- Avg GPA 3.82
- Net Price $41,864
SUNY Old Westbury
- Public 4 Year
- Old Westbury, NY
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- 84% acceptance rate
SUNY Old Westbury is a public university known for undergraduate business, teacher education, and the biological sciences. The suburban Long Island campus occupies wooded grounds of a former estate in Nassau County.
- SAT Range 1010-1206
- Avg GPA 3.1
- Net Price $10,944
University of Mount Olive
- Private 4 Year
- Mount Olive, NC
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- 76% acceptance rate
Mount Olive is a private Christian university known for undergraduate agriculture and business. The residential campus is in the small town of Mount Olive in eastern North Carolina.
- SAT Range 990-1150
- Avg GPA 2.85
- Net Price $18,853
Southeastern Louisiana University
- Public 4 Year
- Hammond, LA
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- 99% acceptance rate
- Aug 1 application deadline
Southeastern Louisiana is a public university known for undergraduate nursing, education, and business. The residential campus is in Hammond, a smaller city between Baton Rouge and New Orleans.
- SAT Range -
- Avg GPA 3.39
- Net Price $13,116
Rosemont College
- Private 4 Year
- Rosemont, PA
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- 76% acceptance rate
Rosemont is a private Catholic liberal arts college known for undergraduate business, education, and psychology. The historic Main Line campus sits in the Philadelphia suburbs.
- SAT Range 980-1200
- Avg GPA 3.2
- Net Price $20,994
John Paul the Great Catholic University
- Private 4 Year
- Escondido, CA
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- 80% acceptance rate
John Paul the Great is a private Catholic university known for undergraduate film, media, and communications. The campus is in Escondido in northern San Diego County.
- SAT Range 975-1270
- Avg GPA 3.56
- Net Price $35,175
Elizabethtown College
- Private 4 Year
- Elizabethtown, PA
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- 78% acceptance rate
Elizabethtown is a private liberal arts college known for undergraduate occupational therapy, business, and education. The residential campus is in a small central Pennsylvania borough and has historic Church of the Brethren ties.
- SAT Range 1105-1310
- Avg GPA 3.66
- Net Price $27,760
Lasell University
- Private 4 Year
- Newton, MA
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4.8 | 18 reviews
- 81% acceptance rate
Lasell is a private university known for undergraduate fashion design, merchandising, and business. The suburban Newton campus sits just outside Boston.
- SAT Range 1030-1158
- Avg GPA 3.12
- Net Price $27,773
Indiana University of Pennsylvania Main Campus
- Public 4 Year
- Indiana, PA
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- 91% acceptance rate
IUP is a public university known for undergraduate criminology, education, and safety sciences. Students live on a residential campus in the small college town of Indiana in western Pennsylvania.
- SAT Range 970-1180
- Avg GPA 3.39
- Net Price $17,626
Lebanon Valley College
- Private 4 Year
- Annville, PA
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3.5 | 2 reviews
- 84% acceptance rate
Lebanon Valley is a private liberal arts college known for undergraduate music and physical therapy. The residential campus sits in the small town of Annville.
- SAT Range 1140-1302
- Avg GPA 3.79
- Net Price $27,995
Northwest Florida State College
- Public 4 Year
- Niceville, FL
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- 100% acceptance rate
Northwest Florida State is a public state college offering associate degrees and select bachelor's programs such as nursing. The campus is in Niceville in the Florida Panhandle near Eglin Air Force Base.
- SAT Range -
- Avg GPA NA
- Net Price $6,250