Most Favored Pennsylvania Colleges

Most Favored Pennsylvania Colleges with Highest Enrollment Rate

This page lists the most favored (higher yield) schools in Pennsylvania. 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.

University of Pennsylvania, has the highest yield rate of 67.98% for academic year 2024-2025 in Pennsylvania. Carnegie Mellon University is positioned second with 45.67% yield and Swarthmore College follows them with 44%. 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 Pennsylvania.

Most Favored Pennsylvania Colleges with Highest Enrollment Rate (2025)
	Name	Yield	# of Applicants	# of Admitted	# of Enrolled	Acceptance Rate
1	University of Pennsylvania Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsPhiladelphia, PA	67.98%	65,226	3,523	2,395	5.40%
2	Carnegie Mellon University Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsPittsburgh, PA	45.67%	33,941	3,959	1,808	11.66%
3	Swarthmore College Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsSwarthmore, PA	43.79%	13,065	975	427	7.46%
4	Haverford College Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsHaverford, PA	42.62%	7,341	908	387	12.37%
5	Grove City College Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsGrove City, PA	37.29%	2,095	1,515	565	72.32%
6	Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania Public, four-yearsSlippery Rock, PA	33.51%	6,464	4,620	1,548	71.47%
7	Bryn Mawr College Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsBryn Mawr, PA	31.54%	4,094	1,205	380	29.43%
8	Bucknell University Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsLewisburg, PA	30.11%	11,377	3,291	991	28.93%
9	Messiah University Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsMechanicsburg, PA	29.06%	2,458	1,941	564	78.97%
10	Lehigh University Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsBethlehem, PA	28.38%	20,396	5,289	1,501	25.93%

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