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Affordable South Carolina Colleges to Admit with Highest Acceptance Rate

The next table lists the most affordable (high acceptance rate) South Carolina colleges and universities to admit. Those schools have been keeping the acceptance rate in high level in recent years. Citadel Military College of South Carolina has the highest acceptance rate as of 98.58% for academic year 2022-2023 in South 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 South Carolina.
Affordable South Carolina Colleges to Admit with Highest Acceptance Rate (2022-2023)
NameAcceptance Rate# of Applicants# of Admitted# of EnrolledYield
1Citadel Military College of South Carolina
Public, four-yearsCharleston, SC
98.58%2,2532,22167830.53%
2Columbia College
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsColumbia, SC
98.12%2,1762,1351908.90%
3Coker University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsHartsville, SC
94.08%99693719020.28%
4Limestone University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsGaffney, SC
89.47%2,2602,02233416.52%
5Charleston Southern University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsCharleston, SC
86.75%4,9674,30972716.87%
6South Carolina State University
Public, four-yearsOrangeburg, SC
83.90%6,8335,73390215.73%
7Francis Marion University
Public, four-yearsFlorence, SC
82.91%3,5232,92161220.95%
8Spartanburg Methodist College
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsSpartanburg, SC
82.13%1,9591,60950431.32%
9University of South Carolina Beaufort
Public, four-yearsBluffton, SC
80.03%2,4791,98447623.99%
10Coastal Carolina University
Public, four-yearsConway, SC
78.63%17,16113,4932,66219.73%