Tightest New Jersey Colleges to Get In

Tightest New Jersey Colleges to Admit with Lowest Acceptance Rate

The next table lists the tightest (low acceptance rate) New Jersey colleges and universities to admit. Those schools have been keeping the acceptance rate in low level in recent years. Princeton University has the lowest acceptance rate as of 6% for academic year 2021-2022 in New Jersey. 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 New Jersey.

Tightest New Jersey Colleges to Admit with Lowest Acceptance Rate (2021-2022)
	Name	Acceptance Rate	# of Applicants	# of Admitted	# of Enrolled	Yield
1	Princeton University Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsPrinceton, NJ	6%	38,019	2,281	1,574	69.00%
2	Stevens Institute of Technology Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsHoboken, NJ	46%	12,500	5,750	978	17.01%
3	The College of New Jersey Public, four-yearsEwing, NJ	64%	10,302	6,593	1,582	24.00%
4	Caldwell University Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsCaldwell, NJ	65.99%	6,649	4,388	439	10.00%
5	Rutgers University-New Brunswick Public, four-yearsNew Brunswick, NJ	66%	41,654	27,492	7,698	28.00%
6	New Jersey Institute of Technology Public, four-yearsNewark, NJ	66%	13,010	8,587	1,546	18.00%
7	Ramapo College of New Jersey Public, four-yearsMahwah, NJ	70%	7,207	5,045	858	17.01%
8	Saint Elizabeth University Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsMorristown, NJ	72.02%	1,966	1,416	170	12.01%
9	Drew University Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsMadison, NJ	73%	3,855	2,814	310	11.02%
10	Rutgers University-Newark Public, four-yearsNewark, NJ	74%	14,935	11,052	1,216	11.00%

Tightest New Jersey Colleges With Lowest Acceptance Rate

Tightest New Jersey Colleges to Admit with Lowest Acceptance Rate

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