Best 2014 US Top 50 Schools 2023 Acceptance Rate Comparison

For the academic year 2022-2023, the average acceptance rate of Best 2014 US Top 50 Schools is 17.23%. The yield, also known as enrollment rate, is 32.79%. A total of 2,729,124 have applied, 470,161 admitted, and 154,187 students have enrolled one of Best 2014 US Top 50 Schools.

California Institute of Technology is the tightest school to admit with 2.69% acceptance rate, and Harvard University has the second lowest acceptance rate of 3.24%.

Best 2014 US Top 50 Schools 2023 Acceptance Rate Comparison

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2023 Acceptance Rates & Admission Statistics Comparison Table
School Name	Applicants	Admitted	Enrolled	Acceptance Rate	Admission Yield
Boston College Chestnut Hill, MA	40,494	6,748	2,335	16.66%	34.60%
Boston University Boston, MA	80,796	11,607	3,635	14.37%	31.32%
Brandeis University Waltham, MA	9,917	3,908	986	39.41%	25.23%
Brown University Providence, RI	50,649	2,562	1,717	5.06%	67.02%
California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA	16,626	448	224	2.69%	50.00%
Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA	34,261	3,873	1,716	11.30%	44.31%
Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH	38,701	10,607	1,553	27.41%	14.64%
Columbia University in the City of New York New York, NY	60,879	2,404	1,540	3.95%	64.06%
Cornell University Ithaca, NY	69,195	5,168	3,491	7.47%	67.55%
Dartmouth College Hanover, NH	28,336	1,808	1,124	6.38%	62.17%
Duke University Durham, NC	50,016	3,174	1,745	6.35%	54.98%
Emory University Atlanta, GA	33,179	3,767	1,424	11.35%	37.80%
Georgetown University Washington, DC	26,638	3,257	1,586	12.23%	48.70%
Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus Atlanta, GA	50,610	8,672	3,647	17.13%	42.05%
Harvard University Cambridge, MA	61,221	1,984	1,646	3.24%	82.96%
Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD	37,844	2,745	1,406	7.25%	51.22%
Lehigh University Bethlehem, PA	15,163	5,607	1,511	36.98%	26.95%
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA	33,767	1,337	1,136	3.96%	84.97%
New York University New York, NY	100,662	12,539	6,184	12.46%	49.32%
Northeastern University Boston, MA	91,000	6,191	2,519	6.80%	40.69%
Northwestern University Evanston, IL	51,261	3,695	2,038	7.21%	55.16%
Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus University Park, PA	85,784	47,360	9,216	55.21%	19.46%
Princeton University Princeton, NJ	38,019	2,167	1,499	5.70%	69.17%
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY	16,863	10,878	2,002	64.51%	18.40%
Rice University Houston, TX	31,443	2,730	1,203	8.68%	44.07%
Stanford University Stanford, CA	56,378	2,075	1,736	3.68%	83.66%
Tufts University Medford, MA	34,882	3,381	1,695	9.69%	50.13%
University of California-Berkeley Berkeley, CA	128,209	14,523	6,728	11.33%	46.33%
University of California-Davis Davis, CA	94,747	35,377	6,399	37.34%	18.09%
University of California-Irvine Irvine, CA	119,191	25,212	5,664	21.15%	22.47%
University of California-Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA	149,801	12,845	6,462	8.57%	50.31%
University of California-San Diego La Jolla, CA	131,197	31,103	6,546	23.71%	21.05%
University of California-Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA	110,995	28,688	4,967	25.85%	17.31%
University of Chicago Chicago, IL	37,522	2,039	1,729	5.43%	84.80%
University of Florida Gainesville, FL	64,473	15,054	6,612	23.35%	43.92%
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL	63,257	28,354	7,957	44.82%	28.06%
University of Miami Coral Gables, FL	49,169	9,312	2,371	18.94%	25.46%
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI	84,289	14,914	7,050	17.69%	47.27%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC	56,341	9,639	4,435	17.11%	46.01%
University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN	26,509	3,421	2,037	12.91%	59.54%
University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA	54,588	3,549	2,409	6.50%	67.88%
University of Rochester Rochester, NY	19,966	7,768	1,625	38.91%	20.92%
University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA	69,062	8,304	3,420	12.02%	41.18%
University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI	60,214	29,539	8,628	49.06%	29.21%
Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN	46,377	3,093	1,619	6.67%	52.34%
Wake Forest University Winston-Salem, NC	16,857	3,602	1,370	21.37%	38.03%
Washington University in St Louis Saint Louis, MO	32,014	3,764	1,813	11.76%	48.17%
William & Mary Williamsburg, VA	18,087	6,059	1,642	33.50%	27.10%
Yale University New Haven, CT	50,060	2,289	1,554	4.57%	67.89%
Yeshiva University New York, NY	1,615	1,021	636	63.22%	62.29%
Average	54,582	9,403	3,084	17.23%	32.79%

*The admission data is updated with academic year 2022-2023 data from National Center For Education Statistics (September 2, 2023).

**Information is not available for schools that are not appeared in the table. The schools have not report the information to the IPEDS or not applicable.)

Best 2014 US Top 50 Schools with Outstanding Admission Stats

Tightest Schools (Lowest Acceptance Rates)

Stanford University 3.68%
California Institute of Technology 2.69%
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 3.96%
Harvard University 3.24%
Columbia University in the City of New York 3.95%

Favored Schools (Highest Admission Yield)

University of Chicago 84.80%
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 84.97%
Stanford University 83.66%
Harvard University 82.96%
Princeton University 69.17%