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Tightest Kentucky Colleges to Admit with Lowest Acceptance Rate

The next table lists the tightest (low acceptance rate) Kentucky colleges and universities to admit. Those schools have been keeping the acceptance rate in low level in recent years. Berea College has the lowest acceptance rate as of 24.58% for academic year 2022-2023 in Kentucky. For the ranking, we only include 4-years colleges with at least 100 new students (freshmen).
The following table shows the schools that have low acceptance rates with admission statistics and yield, also known as enrollment rate. You may want to check colleges having the highest acceptance rates in Kentucky.
Tightest Kentucky Colleges to Admit with Lowest Acceptance Rate (2022-2023)
NameAcceptance Rate# of Applicants# of Admitted# of EnrolledYield
1Berea College
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsBerea, KY
24.58%2,21754535364.77%
2Kentucky Christian University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsGrayson, KY
44.39%60626911442.38%
3Brescia University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsOwensboro, KY
50.36%1,93697510210.46%
4Union College
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsBarbourville, KY
53.42%1,14261020032.79%
5Centre College
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsDanville, KY
62.85%2,7241,71240023.36%
6Eastern Kentucky University
Public, four-yearsRichmond, KY
64.31%15,82110,1742,73726.90%
7Kentucky Wesleyan College
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsOwensboro, KY
68.55%1,43498322022.38%
8Georgetown College
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsGeorgetown, KY
71.52%2,5321,81135919.82%
9Asbury University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsWilmore, KY
78.73%1,10587029533.91%
10University of Louisville
Public, four-yearsLouisville, KY
81.54%15,46212,6082,93123.25%