Most Selective Colleges

Colleges ranked by acceptance rate from most to least selective.

Showing 1–50 of 3,663 colleges

Overall Best Value Top Earnings Most Selective Graduation Rate Best Public Best Private Largest

Rank	College	Location	Type	Acceptance	Composite
1	DeVry University-Texas	Irving, Texas	Private for-profit	0.0%	36.0
2	Alliant International University-San Diego	San Diego, California	Private for-profit	0.0%	44.5
3	Baptist Health System School of Health Professions	San Antonio, Texas	Private for-profit	0.0%	64.0
4	California Institute of Technology	Pasadena, California	Private nonprofit	3.1%	94.2
5	Harvard University	Cambridge, Massachusetts	Private nonprofit	3.5%	89.2
6	Minerva University	San Francisco, California	Private nonprofit	3.5%	76.3
7	Stanford University	Stanford, California	Private nonprofit	3.9%	93.2
8	Columbia University in the City of New York	New York, New York	Private nonprofit	4.2%	88.4
9	Yale University	New Haven, Connecticut	Private nonprofit	4.5%	88.6
10	Princeton University	Princeton, New Jersey	Private nonprofit	4.5%	92.1
11	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Cambridge, Massachusetts	Private nonprofit	4.7%	97.6
12	University of Chicago	Chicago, Illinois	Private nonprofit	4.8%	84.6
13	Brown University	Providence, Rhode Island	Private nonprofit	5.2%	85.4
14	Northeastern University	Boston, Massachusetts	Private nonprofit	5.7%	83.2
15	University of Pennsylvania	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Private nonprofit	5.9%	91.9
16	Dartmouth College	Hanover, New Hampshire	Private nonprofit	6.2%	86.3
17	Vanderbilt University	Nashville, Tennessee	Private nonprofit	6.3%	84.3
18	Pomona College	Claremont, California	Private nonprofit	6.8%	79.1
19	Colby College	Waterville, Maine	Private nonprofit	6.8%	80.4
20	Duke University	Durham, North Carolina	Private nonprofit	6.8%	86.6
21	Curtis Institute of Music	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Private nonprofit	7.0%	76.7
22	Swarthmore College	Swarthmore, Pennsylvania	Private nonprofit	6.9%	80.5
23	Northwestern University	Evanston, Illinois	Private nonprofit	7.1%	84.0
24	Johns Hopkins University	Baltimore, Maryland	Private nonprofit	7.6%	82.7
25	Rice University	Houston, Texas	Private nonprofit	7.9%	83.3
26	Barnard College	New York, New York	Private nonprofit	8.0%	79.2
27	Bowdoin College	Brunswick, Maine	Private nonprofit	8.0%	81.3
28	Cornell University	Ithaca, New York	Private nonprofit	8.2%	87.9
29	University of California-Los Angeles	Los Angeles, California	Public	8.7%	82.1
30	The Juilliard School	New York, New York	Private nonprofit	9.0%	65.1
31	United States Naval Academy	Annapolis, Maryland	Public	9.4%	76.7
32	New York University	New York, New York	Private nonprofit	9.4%	77.3
33	Amherst College	Amherst, Massachusetts	Private nonprofit	9.8%	77.9
34	University of Southern California	Los Angeles, California	Private nonprofit	10.0%	82.3
35	Williams College	Williamstown, Massachusetts	Private nonprofit	10.0%	83.2
36	Pacific Oaks College	Pasadena, California	Private nonprofit	10.0%	54.6
37	Tufts University	Medford, Massachusetts	Private nonprofit	10.1%	80.1
38	Middlebury College	Middlebury, Vermont	Private nonprofit	10.4%	77.5
39	Boston University	Boston, Massachusetts	Private nonprofit	10.8%	78.0
40	Claremont McKenna College	Claremont, California	Private nonprofit	11.1%	87.1
41	Emory University	Atlanta, Georgia	Private nonprofit	11.1%	77.7
42	Stanbridge University	Irvine, California	Private for-profit	11.4%	65.2
43	Carnegie Mellon University	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania	Private nonprofit	11.4%	89.7
44	Washington University of Science and Technology	Alexandria, Virginia	Private for-profit	11.5%	69.5
45	University of California-Berkeley	Berkeley, California	Public	11.7%	85.2
46	Hamilton College	Clinton, New York	Private nonprofit	11.8%	77.6
47	Colgate University	Hamilton, New York	Private nonprofit	11.9%	79.6
48	Washington University in St Louis	St. Louis, Missouri	Private nonprofit	12.0%	80.8
49	University of Notre Dame	Notre Dame, Indiana	Private nonprofit	12.4%	86.1
50	Grinnell College	Grinnell, Iowa	Private nonprofit	12.7%	72.1

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