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 4.38% 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	4.38%	37,601	1,647	1,290	78.32%
2	Stevens Institute of Technology Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsHoboken, NJ	52.69%	11,320	5,965	1,091	18.29%
3	The College of New Jersey Public, four-yearsEwing, NJ	61.98%	10,393	6,442	1,476	22.91%
4	Rutgers University-New Brunswick Public, four-yearsNew Brunswick, NJ	68.16%	43,161	29,419	7,105	24.15%
5	New Jersey Institute of Technology Public, four-yearsNewark, NJ	69.14%	11,578	8,005	1,374	17.16%
6	Ramapo College of New Jersey Public, four-yearsMahwah, NJ	70.10%	6,930	4,858	900	18.53%
7	Saint Elizabeth University Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsMorristown, NJ	73.70%	1,266	933	107	11.47%
8	Seton Hall University Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsSouth Orange, NJ	76.61%	23,417	17,940	1,688	9.41%
9	Rutgers University-Newark Public, four-yearsNewark, NJ	77.43%	14,456	11,194	1,300	11.61%
10	Rutgers University-Camden Public, four-yearsCamden, NJ	78.70%	11,156	8,780	604	6.88%

Tightest New Jersey Colleges With Lowest Acceptance Rate

Tightest New Jersey Colleges to Admit with Lowest Acceptance Rate

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