Tightest Mississippi Colleges to Get In

Tightest Mississippi Colleges to Admit with Lowest Acceptance Rate

The next table lists the tightest (low acceptance rate) Mississippi colleges and universities to admit. Those schools have been keeping the acceptance rate in low level in recent years. Alcorn State University has the lowest acceptance rate as of 29.93% for academic year 2022-2023 in Mississippi. 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 Mississippi.

Tightest Mississippi Colleges to Admit with Lowest Acceptance Rate (2022-2023)
	Name	Acceptance Rate	# of Applicants	# of Admitted	# of Enrolled	Yield
1	Alcorn State University Public, four-yearsAlcorn State, MS	29.93%	6,748	2,020	498	24.65%
2	Mississippi College Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsClinton, MS	39.99%	2,413	965	378	39.17%
3	Belhaven University Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsJackson, MS	42.60%	2,589	1,103	262	23.75%
4	Tougaloo College Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsTougaloo, MS	49.31%	2,817	1,389	133	9.58%
5	William Carey University Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsHattiesburg, MS	53.58%	517	277	178	64.26%
6	Mississippi Valley State University Public, four-yearsItta Bena, MS	64.78%	2,436	1,578	225	14.26%
7	Millsaps College Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsJackson, MS	67.83%	2,210	1,499	192	12.81%
8	Mississippi State University Public, four-yearsMississippi State, MS	75.19%	18,830	14,158	3,367	23.78%
9	Rust College Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsHolly Springs, MS	78.76%	2,467	1,943	184	9.47%
10	Jackson State University Public, four-yearsJackson, MS	88.64%	12,583	11,153	1,132	10.15%

Tightest Mississippi Colleges With Lowest Acceptance Rate

Tightest Mississippi Colleges to Admit with Lowest Acceptance Rate

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