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California Colleges with Lowest Enrollment Rate

This page lists the schools having low yield) in California. 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.
California State University-East Bay, has the lowest yield rate of 7.47% for academic year 2022-2023 in California. California State University-Monterey Bay is positioned second with 7.79% yield and California State University-Bakersfield follows them with 9%. Next table shows the schools that have low 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 highest yield rates in California.
California Colleges with Lowest Enrollment Rate (2023)
NameYield# of Applicants# of Admitted# of EnrolledAcceptance Rate
1California State University-East Bay
Public, four-yearsHayward, CA
7.47% 12,461 11,988 896 96.20%
2California State University-Monterey Bay
Public, four-yearsSeaside, CA
7.79% 12,568 11,611 904 92.39%
3California State University-Bakersfield
Public, four-yearsBakersfield, CA
9.25% 13,834 11,973 1,107 86.55%
4University of San Francisco
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsSan Francisco, CA
9.46% 23,103 16,444 1,555 71.18%
5Sonoma State University
Public, four-yearsRohnert Park, CA
9.52% 10,806 10,158 967 94.00%
6Menlo College
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsAtherton, CA
9.80% 3,357 2,072 203 61.72%
7California State University-Chico
Public, four-yearsChico, CA
9.93% 21,417 20,347 2,020 95.00%
8Whittier College
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsWhittier, CA
10.95% 3,014 2,274 249 75.45%
9California State Polytechnic University-Humboldt
Public, four-yearsArcata, CA
11.51% 8,505 8,350 961 98.18%
10San Francisco State University
Public, four-yearsSan Francisco, CA
11.84% 29,932 28,195 3,339 94.20%