For 2024-2025 admission, the average acceptance rate of California colleges is 47.45%, 952,367 accepted out of 2,007,136 applicants.
For California college admission, the total number of applicants increased by 25,336 (1.28%) compared to last year, from 1,981,800 applicants. The number of students enrolled in first year decreased by 548, which is less than -0.37% last year.
California colleges' acceptance rate increased by 3.34% compared to last year, which means easier to get into California colleges. The yield decreased by 1.45%.
Among California colleges, California Institute of Technology has the lowest acceptance rate of 2.57% with 356 accepted students out of 13,856 applicants. University of California-Los Angeles has the most number of applicants of 146,272 and University of California-San Diego has the most number of first-year enrolled students of 7,330.
Acceptance Rate and Admission Stats for California Colleges
The following table compares the acceptance rate and admission statistics between four-years colleges in California. Those colleges have admission requirements and criteria to admit (not open admission). The green or red arrows with numbers indicate change from the previous year for each column.