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Most Favored Oregon Colleges with Highest Enrollment Rate

This page lists the most favored (higher yield) schools in Oregon. 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.
Southern Oregon University, has the highest yield rate of 29.33% for academic year 2024-2025 in Oregon. Corban University is positioned second with 27.34% yield and Oregon State University follows them with 20%. Next table shows the schools that have high yield rates with admission statistics and acceptance rates. Colleges whose programs are focused on certificate, associate, and/or special subjects such as arts and music are excluded from the ranking. You may want to check colleges having the lowest yield rates in Oregon.
Most Favored Oregon Colleges with Highest Enrollment Rate (2025)
NameYield# of Applicants# of Admitted# of EnrolledAcceptance Rate
1Southern Oregon University
Public, four-yearsAshland, OR
29.33% 2,320 2,056 603 88.62%
2Corban University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsSalem, OR
27.34% 557 523 143 93.90%
3Oregon State University
Public, four-yearsCorvallis, OR
20.40% 30,293 23,418 4,778 77.30%
4Eastern Oregon University
Public, four-yearsLa Grande, OR
20.10% 1,599 1,572 316 98.31%
5Western Oregon University
Public, four-yearsMonmouth, OR
18.62% 3,060 3,002 559 98.10%
6Bushnell University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsEugene, OR
18.60% 871 586 109 67.28%
7Portland State University
Public, four-yearsPortland, OR
18.21% 9,077 8,248 1,502 90.87%
8George Fox University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsNewberg, OR
18.07% 4,207 3,934 711 93.51%
9Linfield University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsMcMinnville, OR
17.02% 2,629 2,239 381 85.17%
10University of Oregon
Public, four-yearsEugene, OR
14.40% 40,021 35,337 5,087 88.30%