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Tightest Kansas Colleges to Admit with Lowest Acceptance Rate

The following table lists the tightest (low acceptance rate) Kansas colleges and universities to admit. Those schools have been keeping the acceptance rate in low level in recent years. Sterling College has the lowest acceptance rate as of 48.17% for academic year 2023-2024 in Kansas. 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 Kansas.
Tightest Kansas Colleges to Admit with Lowest Acceptance Rate (2023-2024)
NameAcceptance Rate# of Applicants# of Admitted# of EnrolledYield
1Sterling College
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsSterling, KS
48.17%82039512030.38%
2Central Christian College of Kansas
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsMcPherson, KS
52.71%71937913134.56%
3Friends University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsWichita, KS
55.22%1,02556625344.70%
4Bethany College
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsLindsborg, KS
56%1,55086819222.12%
5Tabor College
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsHillsboro, KS
64.58%55936113637.67%
6Kansas Wesleyan University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsSalina, KS
71.90%1,9751,42026418.59%
7Newman University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsWichita, KS
73.98%1,08079916320.40%
8Southwestern College
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsWinfield, KS
75.55%1,4521,09721019.14%
9McPherson College
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsMcPherson, KS
76.76%1,8461,41731822.44%
10MidAmerica Nazarene University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsOlathe, KS
78.80%1,09986622926.44%