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California Colleges With Highest Acceptance Rate

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Affordable California Colleges to Admit with Highest Acceptance Rate

The next table lists the most affordable (high acceptance rate) California colleges and universities to admit. Those schools have been keeping the acceptance rate in high level in recent years. California State Polytechnic University-Humboldt has the highest acceptance rate as of 98.18% for academic year 2022-2023 in California. For the ranking, we only include 4-years colleges with at least 100 new students (freshmen).
The following table shows the schools that have high acceptance rates with admission statistics and yield, also known as enrollment rate. You may want to check colleges having the tightest acceptance rates in California.
Affordable California Colleges to Admit with Highest Acceptance Rate (2022-2023)
NameAcceptance Rate# of Applicants# of Admitted# of EnrolledYield
1California State Polytechnic University-Humboldt
Public, four-yearsArcata, CA		98.18%8,5058,35096111.51%
2California State University-Stanislaus
Public, four-yearsTurlock, CA		96.61%6,0775,8711,03217.58%
3California State University-East Bay
Public, four-yearsHayward, CA		96.20%12,46111,9888967.47%
4California State University Maritime Academy
Public, four-yearsVallejo, CA		95.50%75672214520.08%
5California State University-Fresno
Public, four-yearsFresno, CA		95.43%18,55117,7033,45819.53%
6California State University-San Marcos
Public, four-yearsSan Marcos, CA		95.19%14,77414,0642,55118.14%
7California State University-Chico
Public, four-yearsChico, CA		95%21,41720,3472,0209.93%
8San Francisco State University
Public, four-yearsSan Francisco, CA		94.20%29,93228,1953,33911.84%
9Sonoma State University
Public, four-yearsRohnert Park, CA		94%10,80610,1589679.52%
10University of the Pacific
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsStockton, CA		93.23%5,8915,49284715.42%

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