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Ohio Colleges with Lowest Enrollment Rate

This page lists the schools having low yield) in Ohio. 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.
Defiance College, has the lowest yield rate of 8.71% for academic year 2022-2023 in Ohio. Notre Dame College is positioned second with 9.48% yield and Xavier 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 Ohio.
Ohio Colleges with Lowest Enrollment Rate (2023)
NameYield# of Applicants# of Admitted# of EnrolledAcceptance Rate
1Defiance College
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsDefiance, OH
8.71% 2,722 1,711 149 62.86%
2Notre Dame College
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsCleveland, OH
9.48% 3,116 2,447 232 78.53%
3Xavier University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsCincinnati, OH
9.50% 14,836 12,542 1,191 84.54%
4Hiram College
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsHiram, OH
10.87% 1,896 1,766 192 93.14%
5The College of Wooster
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsWooster, OH
14.17% 7,251 4,080 578 56.27%
6University of Dayton
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsDayton, OH
14.29% 18,864 13,969 1,996 74.05%
7Wittenberg University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsSpringfield, OH
14.38% 2,998 2,816 405 93.93%
8Case Western Reserve University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsCleveland, OH
14.64% 38,701 10,607 1,553 27.41%
9Miami University-Oxford
Public, four-yearsOxford, OH
15.11% 30,367 26,699 4,035 87.92%
10Bluffton University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsBluffton, OH
15.23% 1,105 1,064 162 96.29%