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Tightest Minnesota Colleges to Admit with Lowest Acceptance Rate

The next table lists the tightest (low acceptance rate) Minnesota colleges and universities to admit. Those schools have been keeping the acceptance rate in low level in recent years. Carleton College has the lowest acceptance rate as of 16.63% for academic year 2022-2023 in Minnesota. 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 Minnesota.
Tightest Minnesota Colleges to Admit with Lowest Acceptance Rate (2022-2023)
NameAcceptance Rate# of Applicants# of Admitted# of EnrolledYield
1Carleton College
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsNorthfield, MN
16.63%8,5831,42753237.28%
2Macalester College
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsSaint Paul, MN
28.42%8,4342,39755223.03%
3St Olaf College
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsNorthfield, MN
56.41%5,5243,11686927.89%
4Minnesota State University Moorhead
Public, four-yearsMoorhead, MN
56.62%3,8982,20763228.64%
5Minneapolis College of Art and Design
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsMinneapolis, MN
56.89%66838016042.11%
6University of Minnesota-Crookston
Public, four-yearsCrookston, MN
57.22%1,73999518718.79%
7Bethany Lutheran College
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsMankato, MN
58.50%66538917645.24%
8Concordia College at Moorhead
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsMoorhead, MN
65.53%3,7742,47344417.95%
9Crown College
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsSaint Bonifacius, MN
66.59%1,27885120724.32%
10Concordia University-Saint Paul
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsSaint Paul, MN
69.09%2,5361,75230217.24%