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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 University-Fresno has the highest acceptance rate as of 97.28% for academic year 2021-2022 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 (2021-2022)
NameAcceptance Rate# of Applicants# of Admitted# of EnrolledYield
1California State University-Fresno
Public, four-yearsFresno, CA
97.28%15,23114,8163,45123.29%
2California State University-Stanislaus
Public, four-yearsTurlock, CA
94.76%5,7405,43995117.48%
3Azusa Pacific University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsAzusa, CA
94.10%3,9673,73363617.04%
4Sonoma State University
Public, four-yearsRohnert Park, CA
93.73%10,5989,9348228.27%
5California State University-Sacramento
Public, four-yearsSacramento, CA
93.68%22,70621,2723,58116.83%
6California State University-San Marcos
Public, four-yearsSan Marcos, CA
93.30%13,98613,0492,41318.49%
7California State University-Channel Islands
Public, four-yearsCamarillo, CA
93%9,2448,5975666.58%
8Dominican University of California
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsSan Rafael, CA
92.93%1,9811,84124513.31%
9San Francisco State University
Public, four-yearsSan Francisco, CA
92.92%27,77725,8093,14912.20%
10California State University-Monterey Bay
Public, four-yearsSeaside, CA
92.81%10,0269,3057798.37%