Tightest Maine Colleges to Get In

Tightest Maine Colleges to Admit with Lowest Acceptance Rate

The next table lists the tightest (low acceptance rate) Maine colleges and universities to admit. Those schools have been keeping the acceptance rate in low level in recent years. Bowdoin College has the lowest acceptance rate as of 8.82% for academic year 2021-2022 in Maine. 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 Maine.

Tightest Maine Colleges to Admit with Lowest Acceptance Rate (2021-2022)
	Name	Acceptance Rate	# of Applicants	# of Admitted	# of Enrolled	Yield
1	Bowdoin College Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsBrunswick, ME	8.82%	9,325	822	517	62.90%
2	Colby College Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsWaterville, ME	8.87%	15,857	1,407	667	47.41%
3	Bates College Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsLewiston, ME	17.31%	7,319	1,267	553	43.65%
4	Maine Maritime Academy Public, four-yearsCastine, ME	57.71%	1,109	640	207	32.34%
5	Maine College of Art & Design Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsPortland, ME	72.07%	666	480	104	21.67%
6	Saint Joseph's College of Maine Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsStandish, ME	80.58%	1,354	1,091	208	19.07%
7	Husson University Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsBangor, ME	85.55%	2,802	2,397	596	24.86%
8	University of Southern Maine Public, four-yearsPortland, ME	86.99%	5,397	4,695	895	19.06%
9	University of New England Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsBiddeford, ME	89.99%	4,765	4,288	595	13.88%
10	Unity College Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsNew Gloucester, ME	91.42%	2,903	2,654	244	9.19%

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Tightest Maine Colleges to Admit with Lowest Acceptance Rate

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