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New Jersey Colleges with Lowest Enrollment Rate

This page lists the schools having low yield) in New Jersey. 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.
Rutgers University-Camden, has the lowest yield rate of 6.88% for academic year 2021-2022 in New Jersey. Rider University is positioned second with 8.86% yield and Seton Hall University 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 New Jersey.
New Jersey Colleges with Lowest Enrollment Rate (2022)
NameYield# of Applicants# of Admitted# of EnrolledAcceptance Rate
1Rutgers University-Camden
Public, four-yearsCamden, NJ
6.88% 11,156 8,780 604 78.70%
2Rider University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsLawrenceville, NJ
8.86% 8,791 7,204 638 81.95%
3Seton Hall University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsSouth Orange, NJ
9.41% 23,417 17,940 1,688 76.61%
4Caldwell University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsCaldwell, NJ
10.41% 3,494 3,353 349 95.96%
5Saint Elizabeth University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsMorristown, NJ
11.47% 1,266 933 107 73.70%
6Rutgers University-Newark
Public, four-yearsNewark, NJ
11.61% 14,456 11,194 1,300 77.43%
7Bloomfield College
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsBloomfield, NJ
12.04% 2,737 2,300 277 84.03%
8Drew University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsMadison, NJ
12.72% 3,542 2,823 359 79.70%
9William Paterson University of New Jersey
Public, four-yearsWayne, NJ
13.03% 9,171 7,636 995 83.26%
10Fairleigh Dickinson University-Metropolitan Campus
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsTeaneck, NJ
13.72% 3,982 3,374 463 84.73%