Tightest Massachusetts Colleges to Admit with Lowest Acceptance Rate
The next table lists the tightest (low acceptance rate) Massachusetts colleges and universities to admit. Those schools have been keeping the acceptance rate in low level in recent years. Harvard University has the lowest acceptance rate as of 4.01% for academic year 2021-2022 in Massachusetts. 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 Massachusetts.
Name | Acceptance Rate | # of Applicants | # of Admitted | # of Enrolled | Yield | |
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1 | Harvard UniversityPrivate (not-for-profit), four-yearsCambridge, MA | 4.01% | 57,786 | 2,318 | 1,951 | 84.17% |
2 | Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyPrivate (not-for-profit), four-yearsCambridge, MA | 4.11% | 33,240 | 1,365 | 1,177 | 86.23% |
3 | Amherst CollegePrivate (not-for-profit), four-yearsAmherst, MA | 8.74% | 13,999 | 1,224 | 515 | 42.08% |
4 | Williams CollegePrivate (not-for-profit), four-yearsWilliamstown, MA | 8.83% | 12,452 | 1,099 | 574 | 52.23% |
5 | Tufts UniversityPrivate (not-for-profit), four-yearsMedford, MA | 11.43% | 31,198 | 3,566 | 1,800 | 50.48% |
6 | Wellesley CollegePrivate (not-for-profit), four-yearsWellesley, MA | 16.18% | 7,663 | 1,240 | 606 | 48.87% |
7 | Northeastern UniversityPrivate (not-for-profit), four-yearsBoston, MA | 18.38% | 75,244 | 13,829 | 4,504 | 32.57% |
8 | Boston UniversityPrivate (not-for-profit), four-yearsBoston, MA | 18.65% | 75,778 | 14,129 | 4,011 | 28.39% |
9 | Boston CollegePrivate (not-for-profit), four-yearsChestnut Hill, MA | 19.04% | 39,846 | 7,587 | 2,516 | 33.16% |
10 | Babson CollegePrivate (not-for-profit), four-yearsWellesley, MA | 25.35% | 7,104 | 1,801 | 650 | 36.09% |
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