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Tightest Wisconsin Colleges to Admit with Lowest Acceptance Rate

The next table lists the tightest (low acceptance rate) Wisconsin colleges and universities to admit. Those schools have been keeping the acceptance rate in low level in recent years. University of Wisconsin-Madison has the lowest acceptance rate as of 49.06% for academic year 2022-2023 in Wisconsin. 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 Wisconsin.
Tightest Wisconsin Colleges to Admit with Lowest Acceptance Rate (2022-2023)
NameAcceptance Rate# of Applicants# of Admitted# of EnrolledYield
1University of Wisconsin-Madison
Public, four-yearsMadison, WI
49.06%60,21429,5398,62829.21%
2Milwaukee School of Engineering
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsMilwaukee, WI
63.47%5,4783,47767219.33%
3Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsMilwaukee, WI
63.97%1,05267322132.84%
4Beloit College
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsBeloit, WI
65.86%3,4622,28023210.18%
5Northland College
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsAshland, WI
68.39%1,31690012213.56%
6Mount Mary University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsMilwaukee, WI
69.45%1,33993015516.67%
7Concordia University-Wisconsin
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsMequon, WI
70.37%3,5442,49442116.88%
8Marian University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsFond Du Lac, WI
71.55%1,26290322524.92%
9Carroll University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsWaukesha, WI
72.14%4,7283,41167419.76%
10Lawrence University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsAppleton, WI
72.27%2,9432,12736417.11%