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. Stanford University has the lowest acceptance rate as of 5.19% for academic year 2019-2020 in California. For the ranking, we only include 4-years colleges with at least 1,000 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 (2019-2020)
	Name	Acceptance Rate	# of Applicants	# of Admitted	# of Enrolled	Yield
1	Stanford University Private (not-for-profit), 4 or more yearsStanford, CA	5.19%	45,227	2,349	1,606	68.37%
2	University of California-Los Angeles Public, 4 or more yearsLos Angeles, CA	14.33%	108,870	15,602	6,386	40.93%
3	University of Southern California Private (not-for-profit), 4 or more yearsLos Angeles, CA	16.11%	59,712	9,618	3,460	35.97%
4	University of California-Berkeley Public, 4 or more yearsBerkeley, CA	17.48%	88,062	15,390	6,117	39.75%
5	University of California-Irvine Public, 4 or more yearsIrvine, CA	29.92%	97,938	29,301	5,765	19.68%
6	University of California-Santa Barbara Public, 4 or more yearsSanta Barbara, CA	36.70%	90,961	33,384	4,847	14.52%
7	University of California-San Diego Public, 4 or more yearsLa Jolla, CA	36.61%	100,062	36,634	6,447	17.60%
8	San Diego State University Public, 4 or more yearsSan Diego, CA	36.70%	64,784	23,778	4,852	20.41%
9	California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo Public, 4 or more yearsSan Luis Obispo, CA	38.43%	52,371	20,127	4,789	23.79%
10	California State University-Long Beach Public, 4 or more yearsLong Beach, CA	42.12%	67,426	28,400	4,908	17.28%

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