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Affordable North Carolina Colleges to Admit with Highest Acceptance Rate

The next table lists the most affordable (high acceptance rate) North Carolina colleges and universities to admit. Those schools have been keeping the acceptance rate in high level in recent years. Belmont Abbey College has the highest acceptance rate as of 97.17% for academic year 2022-2023 in North Carolina. 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 North Carolina.
Affordable North Carolina Colleges to Admit with Highest Acceptance Rate (2022-2023)
NameAcceptance Rate# of Applicants# of Admitted# of EnrolledYield
1Belmont Abbey College
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsBelmont, NC
97.17%2,7572,67939414.71%
2Barton College
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsWilson, NC
94.60%2,1292,01430014.90%
3East Carolina University
Public, four-yearsGreenville, NC
92.34%21,38319,7443,78819.19%
4University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Public, four-yearsGreensboro, NC
91.94%11,51510,5872,34322.13%
5University of North Carolina at Pembroke
Public, four-yearsPembroke, NC
89.74%3,4203,06971423.26%
6Campbell University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsBuies Creek, NC
88.58%3,8603,41951915.18%
7Chowan University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsMurfreesboro, NC
86.68%2,2591,95821510.98%
8Wingate University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsWingate, NC
86.15%20,29217,4828284.74%
9Western Carolina University
Public, four-yearsCullowhee, NC
84.84%17,91715,2011,93212.71%
10North Carolina Central University
Public, four-yearsDurham, NC
84.38%8,4237,1071,07915.18%