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Tightest South Carolina Colleges to Admit with Lowest Acceptance Rate

The next table lists the tightest (low acceptance rate) South Carolina colleges and universities to admit. Those schools have been keeping the acceptance rate in low level in recent years. Clemson University has the lowest acceptance rate as of 42.98% for academic year 2022-2023 in South Carolina. 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 South Carolina.
Tightest South Carolina Colleges to Admit with Lowest Acceptance Rate (2022-2023)
NameAcceptance Rate# of Applicants# of Admitted# of EnrolledYield
1Clemson University
Public, four-yearsClemson, SC
42.98%52,81922,7044,58820.21%
2Allen University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsColumbia, SC
43.36%3,1231,35417412.85%
3Anderson University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsAnderson, SC
45.39%5,0432,28979834.86%
4Columbia International University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsColumbia, SC
48.22%50624417973.36%
5Southern Wesleyan University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsCentral, SC
51.18%84643314834.18%
6Erskine College
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsDue West, SC
53.25%1,58584426831.75%
7Converse University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsSpartanburg, SC
55.57%2,9171,62122513.88%
8Presbyterian College
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsClinton, SC
59.39%3,3291,97727213.76%
9Wofford College
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsSpartanburg, SC
60.18%4,4252,66350719.04%
10University of South Carolina-Columbia
Public, four-yearsColumbia, SC
64.05%42,18827,0226,57424.33%