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Colorado Colleges Not Too Hard to Admit with Highest Acceptance Rate

The following table lists the most affordable (high acceptance rate) Colorado colleges and universities to admit. Those schools have been keeping the acceptance rate in high level in recent years. Western Colorado University has the highest acceptance rate as of 99.71% for academic year 2023-2024 in Colorado. 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 Colorado.
Colorado Colleges Not Too Hard to Admit with Highest Acceptance Rate (2023-2024)
NameAcceptance Rate# of Applicants# of Admitted# of EnrolledYield
1Western Colorado University
Public, four-yearsGunnison, CO
99.71%3,1193,11035711.48%
2Metropolitan State University of Denver
Public, four-yearsDenver, CO
98.80%11,62211,4832,19619.12%
3Colorado State University Global
Public, four-yearsAurora, CO
98.40%50149349099.39%
4University of Colorado Colorado Springs
Public, four-yearsColorado Springs, CO
97.35%13,14712,7991,64512.85%
5Colorado State University Pueblo
Public, four-yearsPueblo, CO
94.90%2,9022,75461822.44%
6Concorde Career College-Aurora
Private (for-profit), four-yearsAurora, CO
90.46%24121812657.80%
7Colorado State University-Fort Collins
Public, four-yearsFort Collins, CO
88.54%38,46534,0575,48516.11%
8Regis University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsDenver, CO
86.46%5,7224,94758511.83%
9University of Northern Colorado
Public, four-yearsGreeley, CO
85.85%11,1279,5531,24313.01%
10Colorado Mesa University
Public, four-yearsGrand Junction, CO
82.03%12,46510,2252,35923.07%