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Tightest Tennessee Colleges to Admit with Lowest Acceptance Rate

The next table lists the tightest (low acceptance rate) Tennessee colleges and universities to admit. Those schools have been keeping the acceptance rate in low level in recent years. Vanderbilt University has the lowest acceptance rate as of 6.67% for academic year 2022-2023 in Tennessee. 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 Tennessee.
Tightest Tennessee Colleges to Admit with Lowest Acceptance Rate (2022-2023)
NameAcceptance Rate# of Applicants# of Admitted# of EnrolledYield
1Vanderbilt University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsNashville, TN
6.67%46,3773,0931,61952.34%
2The University of the South
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsSewanee, TN
52.32%4,5782,39541617.37%
3Union University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsJackson, TN
52.55%2,8391,49233422.39%
4Hussian College-Daymar College Clarksville
Private (for-profit), four-yearsClarksville, TN
53.32%57230521871.48%
5Rhodes College
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsMemphis, TN
53.91%5,2532,83247716.84%
6Tennessee Wesleyan University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsAthens, TN
60.74%96858820034.01%
7King University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsBristol, TN
60.80%87553215228.57%
8Johnson University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsKnoxville, TN
63.21%44328016358.21%
9Southern Adventist University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsCollegedale, TN
65.78%2,4901,63862738.28%
10Cumberland University
Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsLebanon, TN
66.21%2,1371,41562944.45%