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Most Favored Ohio Colleges with Highest Enrollment Rate

This page lists the most favored (higher yield) schools in Ohio. 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.
Franciscan University of Steubenville, has the highest yield rate of 40.50% for academic year 2022-2023 in Ohio. Lake Erie College is positioned second with 38.33% yield and Mount Vernon Nazarene University follows them with 32%. 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 Ohio.
Most Favored Ohio Colleges with Highest Enrollment Rate (2023)
NameYield# of Applicants# of Admitted# of EnrolledAcceptance Rate
1Franciscan University of Steubenville
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsSteubenville, OH
40.50% 2,456 1,637 663 66.65%
2Lake Erie College
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsPainesville, OH
38.33% 1,085 587 225 54.10%
3Mount Vernon Nazarene University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsMount Vernon, OH
32.42% 1,070 913 296 85.33%
4Cedarville University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsCedarville, OH
32.30% 5,435 3,526 1,139 64.88%
5Youngstown State University
Public, four-yearsYoungstown, OH
26.95% 7,481 6,030 1,625 80.60%
6Lourdes University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsSylvania, OH
26.30% 1,082 654 172 60.44%
7Mount Saint Joseph University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsCincinnati, OH
25.61% 2,127 1,156 296 54.35%
8University of Cincinnati-Main Campus
Public, four-yearsCincinnati, OH
25.45% 29,025 25,024 6,369 86.22%
9Denison University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsGranville, OH
25.45% 12,220 2,684 683 21.96%
10Kent State University at Kent
Public, four-yearsKent, OH
23.88% 20,369 17,929 4,281 88.02%