Tightest California Colleges to Get In

Tightest California Colleges to Admit with Lowest Acceptance Rate

The next table lists the tightest (low acceptance rate) California colleges and universities to admit. Those schools have been keeping the acceptance rate in low level in recent years. Minerva University has the lowest acceptance rate as of 1.02% for academic year 2021-2022 in California. 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 California.

Tightest California Colleges to Admit with Lowest Acceptance Rate (2021-2022)
	Name	Acceptance Rate	# of Applicants	# of Admitted	# of Enrolled	Yield
1	Minerva University Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsSan Francisco, CA	1.02%	25,026	256	186	72.66%
2	California Institute of Technology Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsPasadena, CA	3.92%	13,026	510	270	52.94%
3	Stanford University Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsStanford, CA	3.95%	55,471	2,190	1,757	80.23%
4	Pomona College Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsClaremont, CA	6.64%	11,620	771	451	58.50%
5	Harvey Mudd College Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsClaremont, CA	9.99%	4,737	473	225	47.57%
6	Stanbridge University Private (for-profit), four-yearsIrvine, CA	10.50%	1,648	173	161	93.06%
7	University of California-Los Angeles Public, four-yearsLos Angeles, CA	10.77%	139,489	15,028	6,584	43.81%
8	Claremont McKenna College Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsClaremont, CA	11.24%	5,632	633	358	56.56%
9	University of Southern California Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsLos Angeles, CA	12.51%	71,031	8,884	3,668	41.29%
10	University of California-Berkeley Public, four-yearsBerkeley, CA	14.44%	112,843	16,295	6,931	42.53%

Tightest California Colleges With Lowest Acceptance Rate

Tightest California Colleges to Admit with Lowest Acceptance Rate

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