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Affordable Tennessee Colleges to Admit with Highest Acceptance Rate

The next table lists the most affordable (high acceptance rate) Tennessee colleges and universities to admit. Those schools have been keeping the acceptance rate in high level in recent years. Le Moyne-Owen College has the highest acceptance rate as of 99.56% for academic year 2022-2023 in Tennessee. 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 Tennessee.
Affordable Tennessee Colleges to Admit with Highest Acceptance Rate (2022-2023)
NameAcceptance Rate# of Applicants# of Admitted# of EnrolledYield
1Le Moyne-Owen College
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsMemphis, TN
99.56%45144912126.95%
2Belmont University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsNashville, TN
96.27%9,1638,8211,91721.73%
3University of Memphis
Public, four-yearsMemphis, TN
94.60%15,76714,9162,41416.18%
4Austin Peay State University
Public, four-yearsClarksville, TN
93.82%6,3625,9691,46524.54%
5Freed-Hardeman University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsHenderson, TN
91.19%1,06797333134.02%
6Bethel University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsMcKenzie, TN
88.79%2,4892,21045620.63%
7The University of Tennessee-Martin
Public, four-yearsMartin, TN
88.44%5,5024,8661,10722.75%
8Christian Brothers University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsMemphis, TN
87.46%87776717522.82%
9East Tennessee State University
Public, four-yearsJohnson City, TN
85.26%9,6098,1932,05625.09%
10The University of Tennessee-Chattanooga
Public, four-yearsChattanooga, TN
82.65%8,3456,8972,24632.56%