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Excellent Colleges with Higher Acceptance Rates


Excellent colleges with higher admission rates
There are so many excellent colleges with higher admission rates out there to consider. This list names a few that admit 50% or more of total applicants.

In college planning, we often get caught up in focusing on the most highly-selective (or highly-rejective) colleges and universities in the US. 


But the truth is mucher kinder. There is a college of university for everyone.


So, while the odds made be ever NOT in your favor at the country's most selective colleges, there are so many other amazing options to consider. 


Based on Fall 2023 admission data (which is still the most widely available data available on the topic), here are 41 Excellent Colleges with Higher Acceptance Rates (50% or higher!) to help you build a more balances unviersity list.


State

University Name

Fall 2023 Acceptance Rate

Website

ALABAMA

Auburn University

71

CALIFORNIA

University of San Diego

53


Santa Clara University

54


Pepperdine University

49.9


UC Riverside

66


UC Santa Cruz

59


UC Merced

86

CONNECTICUT

University of Connecticut

56

DELAWARE

University of Delaware

70

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

George Washington University

50


American University

64

ILLINOIS

University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign

60


University of Illinois - Chicago

79

INDIANA

Purdue University - West Lafayette

69


Indiana University - Bloomington

85

IOWA

University of Iowa

86

MARYLAND

University of Maryland, College Park

52

MASSACHUSETTS

University of Massachusetts - Amherst

66


Worcester Polytechnic Institute

60

MICHIGAN

Michigan State University

83

MINNESOTA

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

73

NEW JERSEY

Rutgers University - New Brunswick

67


New Jersey Institute of Technology

69

NEW YORK

Yeshiva University

62


Fordham University

58


Syracuse University

59


Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

53


University at Buffalo - SUNY

70

OHIO

The Ohio State University

57

PENNSYLVANIA

The Pennsylvania State University

58


University of Pittsburgh

67

RHODE ISLAND

University of Rhode Island

70

TEXAS

Texas Christian University

54


Southern Methodist University

53


Baylor University

57


Texas A&M University

64

UTAH

Brigham Young University - Provo

59

VIRGINIA

Virginia Tech

56

WASHINGTON

Gonzaga University

76

WISCONSIN

University of Wisconsin - Madison

60


Marquette University

86



Importantly, this post isn’t intended to encourage your move away from applying to potentially more selective college and universities. Instead, it is meant to do two things:


  1. Help calm the storm stirred up by ultra-low admission rates at highly-selectives that bleeds into conversations about admission in general, and

  2. Expand your personal university research to create a more balanced list.


College admissions is nerve racking – unnecessarily so at times. 



We can help, and we might just make this whole process fun too! 


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