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Colleges in Ohio by Acceptance Rate

54 Ohio colleges ranked from most to least selective, using the latest federal IPEDS admissions data.

# College State Rate Trend Applicants
1 Denison University Ohio 16.9% 14,580
2 Case Western Reserve University Ohio 28.7% 39,033
3 Kenyon College Ohio 30.7% 8,218
4 Oberlin College Ohio 33% 11,039
5 Art Academy of Cincinnati Ohio 33.1% 1,056
6 Defiance College Ohio 42.4% 1,546
7 Central State University Ohio 46% 3,291
8 The Christ College of Nursing and Health Sciences Ohio 50.2% 562
9 Ohio Wesleyan University Ohio 50.7% 5,708
10 Ohio State University-Main Campus Ohio 50.8% 70,028
11 Wilberforce University Ohio 52.7% 12,661
12 The College of Wooster Ohio 54.3% 7,031
13 Cleveland Institute of Art Ohio 56.3% 963
14 Mount Saint Joseph University Ohio 56.5% 2,169
15 Bluffton University Ohio 61.2% 2,873
16 University of Dayton Ohio 61.6% 22,747
17 Cedarville University Ohio 62.8% 5,382
18 Lake Erie College Ohio 64.1% 1,193
19 Heidelberg University Ohio 67.7% 2,253
20 University of Akron Main Campus Ohio 70.9% 14,982
21 Columbus College of Art and Design Ohio 71.7% 867
22 Franciscan University of Steubenville Ohio 72.2% 2,265
23 Capital University Ohio 73.2% 4,365
24 Ohio Northern University Ohio 73.4% 4,537
25 Lourdes University Ohio 74.1% 1,004
26 Malone University Ohio 75.6% 1,335
27 Baldwin Wallace University Ohio 76.8% 4,384
28 Walsh University Ohio 78.2% 2,287
29 Marietta College Ohio 78.6% 2,516
30 Tiffin University Ohio 79.8% 4,785
31 University of Mount Union Ohio 80.1% 3,322
32 Notre Dame College Ohio 80.3% 3,348
33 Youngstown State University Ohio 80.3% 5,799
34 Ashland University Ohio 80.6% 3,633
35 Bowling Green State University-Main Campus Ohio 80.6% 18,629
36 John Carroll University Ohio 81.1% 4,238
37 Muskingum University Ohio 81.7% 2,623
38 Miami University-Oxford Ohio 82.1% 34,498
39 Otterbein University Ohio 83.3% 3,498
40 Ursuline College Ohio 84% 613
41 Mount Vernon Nazarene University Ohio 84.3% 1,134
42 Wilmington College Ohio 84.6% 1,877
43 Ohio University-Main Campus Ohio 84.8% 25,648
44 Ohio Dominican University Ohio 85.2% 1,559
45 The University of Findlay Ohio 86.3% 3,760
46 Kent State University at Kent Ohio 86.6% 22,365
47 University of Cincinnati-Main Campus Ohio 87.7% 33,165
48 Xavier University Ohio 87.7% 16,750
49 Wittenberg University Ohio 91% 2,956
50 Hiram College Ohio 93.4% 1,906
51 University of Toledo Ohio 94.8% 11,184
52 Wright State University-Main Campus Ohio 95.2% 8,894
53 Cleveland State University Ohio 95.5% 10,274
54 Wright State University-Lake Campus Ohio 99.8% 660