Schools Ranked by Acceptance Rate

A college’s overall quality and prestige is in part determined by its selectivity, of which acceptance rate is an indicator. The acceptance rate figures are provided by the College Navigator database, a tool offered by the U.S. Department of Education. The data is for the fall 2011 entering undergraduate class.

College Navigator did not have acceptance rate figures for all of the colleges on our list. We did not, however, want to penalize those colleges without data. To that end, we simply excluded those schools from the rankings in this category.

Rank School FT to PT
Faculty Ratio		 Institution
Fin. Aid Rate		 Acceptance Rate Retention Rate Graduation Rate Accred.
Years		 Default
Rate		 Job Place. Rate  
500 Kansas State University 6.01 to 1 64% 99% 82% 56% 96 5% N/A  
500 Montana State University-Billings 0.81 to 1 32% 99% 56% 50% 80 6% N/A  
500 The National Hispanic University 0.11 to 1 5% 99% 67% 18% 10 14% N/A  
500 The University of Texas at El Paso 2.29 to 1 37% 99% 75% 37% 76 12% N/A  
500 Wayland Baptist University 0.41 to 1 82% 99% 50% 37% 56 13% N/A  
506 Akron Institute of Herzing University 1.22 to 1 8% 100% 20% 60% 10 13% N/A  
506 Barclay College 0.63 to 1 100% 100% 76% 41% 37 12% N/A  
506 Bryant and Stratton College-Buffalo Campus 0.30 to 1 30% 100% N/A 13% 10 23% 95%  
506 Capella University 0.20 to 1 33% 100% 67% 0% 15 10% N/A  
506 Carrington College-Phoenix 1.14 to 1 0% 100% 68% 68% 20 24% N/A  
506 Chancellor University 0.23 to 1 19% 100% 45% 4% 34 11% N/A  
506 City College--Fort Lauderdale 0.10 to 1 0% 100% N/A 58% 26 28% 100%  
506 Coleman University 0.31 to 1 0% 100% N/A 66% 45 17% N/A  
506 Herzing University-Madison 0.15 to 1 12% 100% 47% 59% 10 13% N/A  
506 Northwestern Oklahoma State University 1.19 to 1 60% 100% 59% 37% 90 15% N/A  
506 Southwest Tennessee Community College 0.43 to 1 7% 100% 46% 5% 12 0% N/A  
506 Walters State Community College 0.27 to 1 17% 100% 55% 19% 40 20% N/A  
506 Washburn University 0.90 to 1 50% 100% 62% 38% 99 10% N/A  

Methodology

For each college, we gathered data for nine different metrics: the number of full-time faculty per part-time faculty member; institutional financial aid, acceptance, retention, graduation, job placement, and default rates; years accredited; and undergraduate tuition. Learn more