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Most Favored Kansas Colleges with Highest Enrollment Rate

This page lists the most favored (higher yield) schools in Kansas. The yield, also known as enrollment rate, is the percent of students who choose to enroll after having been offered admission. Higher yield means that more admitted students are finally enrolled into the school.
Fort Hays State University, has the highest yield rate of 51.27% for academic year 2022-2023 in Kansas. Pittsburg State University is positioned second with 37.20% yield and Baker University follows them with 33%. Next table shows the schools that have high yield rates with admission statistics and acceptance rates. We exclude colleges whose programs are focused on certificate, associate, and/or special subjects such as arts and music from the ranking. You may want to check colleges having the lowest yield rates in Kansas.
Most Favored Kansas Colleges with Highest Enrollment Rate (2023)
NameYield# of Applicants# of Admitted# of EnrolledAcceptance Rate
1Fort Hays State University
Public, four-yearsHays, KS
51.27% 1,828 1,609 825 88.02%
2Pittsburg State University
Public, four-yearsPittsburg, KS
37.20% 2,642 2,277 847 86.18%
3Baker University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsBaldwin City, KS
32.58% 776 712 232 91.75%
4MidAmerica Nazarene University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsOlathe, KS
31.61% 1,103 737 233 66.82%
5Kansas State University
Public, four-yearsManhattan, KS
31.50% 9,706 9,234 2,909 95.14%
6University of Kansas
Public, four-yearsLawrence, KS
31.31% 16,204 14,234 4,457 87.84%
7Emporia State University
Public, four-yearsEmporia, KS
30.41% 1,846 1,766 537 95.67%
8McPherson College
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsMcPherson, KS
26.26% 1,445 952 250 65.88%
9Friends University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsWichita, KS
25.85% 1,620 1,025 265 63.27%
10Kansas Wesleyan University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsSalina, KS
24.79% 1,356 944 234 69.62%