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Tightest Maine Colleges to Admit with Lowest Acceptance Rate

The next table lists the tightest (low acceptance rate) Maine colleges and universities to admit. Those schools have been keeping the acceptance rate in low level in recent years. Colby College has the lowest acceptance rate as of 7.61% for academic year 2022-2023 in Maine. For the ranking, we only include 4-years colleges with at least 100 new students (freshmen).
The following table shows the schools that have low acceptance rates with admission statistics and yield, also known as enrollment rate. You may want to check colleges having the highest acceptance rates in Maine.
Tightest Maine Colleges to Admit with Lowest Acceptance Rate (2022-2023)
NameAcceptance Rate# of Applicants# of Admitted# of EnrolledYield
1Colby College
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsWaterville, ME
7.61%16,8901,28667352.33%
2Bowdoin College
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsBrunswick, ME
9.19%9,37686250858.93%
3Bates College
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsLewiston, ME
13.74%8,2731,13751845.56%
4Maine Maritime Academy
Public, four-yearsCastine, ME
57.65%1,16467121932.64%
5Saint Joseph's College of Maine
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsStandish, ME
80.84%1,4721,19020116.89%
6University of Southern Maine
Public, four-yearsPortland, ME
85.43%5,5444,73675115.86%
7Husson University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsBangor, ME
91.31%2,5422,32157724.86%
8University of Maine
Public, four-yearsOrono, ME
93.96%15,02114,1141,94013.75%
9University of Maine at Farmington
Public, four-yearsFarmington, ME
94.17%1,4071,32526419.92%
10Unity College
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsNew Gloucester, ME
94.31%6,3125,9534156.97%