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73.07% Applicants Accepted to U.S. Colleges

What is the Average Acceptance Rate?

The acceptance rate is a percentage of applicants to accept a school in college admission. In general, the high ranked colleges and special purpose schools have low acceptance rate to recruit competitive students. The acceptance rate at a school does not change dramatically. So when you apply to the school, the previous year's rate can be used as an important factor.
The average acceptance rate of U.S. colleges is 73.07%. Total 7,667,257 students have accepted out of 13,056,619. By gender, the acceptance rate of female students is 73.71% and male students' rate is 71.61%
The next schools are the top 5 U.S. colleges that have the lowest acceptance rate. Minerva University has the lowest acceptance rate of 1.00% among U.S. colleges. California Institute of Technology and Harvard University also have low acceptance rate of 2.69% and 3.24% respectively. The top schools are selected with an minimum number of new students (first-time students) of 100. You can view more schools at U.S. colleges with lowest acceptance rate.
The following table summarizes the average acceptance rate in United States by school type and level.
Colleges The Average Acceptance Rate
TotalPublicPrivate (not-for-profit)Private (for-profit)
4 years colleges72.64%78.05%69.87%74.06%
Acceptance Rate by Gender at U.S. colleges
ApplicantsAcceptedAcceptance Rate
Total13,056,6197,667,25772.88%
Female7,468,9394,549,96373.71%
Male5,548,5623,102,07971.61%

The Average Acceptance Rate By State

The following table summarizes the The Average Acceptance Rate by state and school type. You can sort the table by a column by touching/clicking the column name.
The Average Acceptance Rate by State (2023)
StateAcceptance RateApplicantsAccepted
Alabama77%12,8268,995
Alaska64%2,2361,454
Arizona80%43,54037,062
Arkansas78%6,5065,098
California70%45,68320,166
Colorado87%13,04510,805
Connecticut84%8,5535,832
Delaware64%21,23615,003
District of Columbia0%00
Florida54%28,28511,900
Georgia75%11,2206,456
Hawaii84%7,4935,623
Idaho82%11,3759,135
Illinois71%16,92211,137
Indiana80%15,47911,098
Iowa90%17,41415,422
Kansas85%5,2574,761
Kentucky85%11,1049,357
Louisiana75%7,8285,512
Maine88%4,0663,680
Maryland77%12,1417,993
Massachusetts80%6,2154,833
Michigan76%19,76112,637
Minnesota76%6,9435,233
Mississippi82%9,1687,619
Missouri78%4,0593,149
Montana74%10,2437,939
Nebraska83%11,8019,675
Nevada84%8,0776,886
New Hampshire90%7,9457,094
New Jersey80%13,0839,933
New Mexico72%5,3214,369
New York70%10,8786,788
North Carolina71%15,4069,362
North Dakota83%2,8472,536
Ohio82%15,20411,761
Oklahoma71%5,4143,897
Oregon88%10,4759,011
Pennsylvania84%6,2944,623
Rhode Island82%14,70111,449
South Carolina75%10,4136,577
South Dakota87%2,6902,407
Tennessee83%11,3989,015
Texas84%12,9409,525
Utah89%18,57016,471
Vermont55%15,5819,269
Virginia76%14,6009,312
Washington83%12,8708,686
West Virginia88%3,0112,724
Wisconsin78%10,5497,363
Wyoming96%5,7975,564
American Samoa---
Federated States of Micronesia79%1,3361,055
Guam0%00
Marshall Islands---
Northern Marianas---
Palau---
Puerto Rico72%1,112642
Virgin Islands97%612593