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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.
Tightest Massachusetts Colleges to Admit with Lowest Acceptance Rate (2021-2022)
NameAcceptance Rate# of Applicants# of Admitted# of EnrolledYield
1Harvard University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsCambridge, MA
4.01%57,7862,3181,95184.17%
2Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsCambridge, MA
4.11%33,2401,3651,17786.23%
3Amherst College
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsAmherst, MA
8.74%13,9991,22451542.08%
4Williams College
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsWilliamstown, MA
8.83%12,4521,09957452.23%
5Tufts University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsMedford, MA
11.43%31,1983,5661,80050.48%
6Wellesley College
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsWellesley, MA
16.18%7,6631,24060648.87%
7Northeastern University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsBoston, MA
18.38%75,24413,8294,50432.57%
8Boston University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsBoston, MA
18.65%75,77814,1294,01128.39%
9Boston College
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsChestnut Hill, MA
19.04%39,8467,5872,51633.16%
10Babson College
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsWellesley, MA
25.35%7,1041,80165036.09%