Tightest Texas Colleges to Get In

Tightest Texas Colleges to Admit with Lowest Acceptance Rate

The following table lists the tightest (low acceptance rate) Texas colleges and universities to admit. Those schools have been keeping the acceptance rate in low level in recent years. Rice University has the lowest acceptance rate as of 8% for academic year 2023-2024 in Texas. 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 Texas.

Tightest Texas Colleges to Admit with Lowest Acceptance Rate (2023-2024)
	Name	Acceptance Rate	# of Applicants	# of Admitted	# of Enrolled	Yield
1	Rice University Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsHouston, TX	8%	32,473	2,597	1,148	44.20%
2	Trinity University Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsSan Antonio, TX	25.92%	12,506	3,241	650	20.06%
3	The University of Texas at Austin Public, four-yearsAustin, TX	26.64%	72,885	19,417	9,210	47.43%
4	LeTourneau University Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsLongview, TX	38.01%	3,673	1,396	311	22.28%
5	Huston-Tillotson University Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsAustin, TX	39.09%	3,190	1,247	290	23.26%
6	Paul Quinn College Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsDallas, TX	40.28%	3,088	1,244	169	13.59%
7	Southwestern University Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsGeorgetown, TX	43.05%	6,313	2,718	374	13.76%
8	Texas A & M International University Public, four-yearsLaredo, TX	44.37%	8,499	3,771	1,363	36.14%
9	Texas Christian University Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsFort Worth, TX	44.49%	22,307	9,925	2,453	24.72%
10	Austin College Private (not-for-profit), four-yearsSherman, TX	47.65%	5,282	2,517	357	14.18%

Tightest Texas Colleges With Lowest Acceptance Rate

Tightest Texas Colleges to Admit with Lowest Acceptance Rate

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