Colleges in Tennessee by Acceptance Rate

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

#	College	State	Rate	Applicants
1	Vanderbilt University	Tennessee	6.3%	45,313
2	The University of Tennessee-Knoxville	Tennessee	46%	50,488
3	Union University	Tennessee	47.2%	3,012
4	Rhodes College	Tennessee	49.7%	6,025
5	The University of the South	Tennessee	50.9%	5,018
6	Hussian College-Daymar College Clarksville	Tennessee	53.3%	572
7	Johnson University	Tennessee	53.8%	610
8	King University	Tennessee	54.4%	1,195
9	Fisk University	Tennessee	57.9%	7,982
10	Lincoln Memorial University	Tennessee	59.3%	4,007
11	Tennessee Wesleyan University	Tennessee	59.4%	988
12	Tusculum University	Tennessee	60.4%	758
13	Maryville College	Tennessee	65.7%	2,809
14	Lipscomb University	Tennessee	66.6%	4,244
15	Southern Adventist University	Tennessee	66.6%	2,731
16	Cumberland University	Tennessee	67%	2,788
17	Middle Tennessee State University	Tennessee	68%	14,763
18	Carson-Newman University	Tennessee	68.3%	2,991
19	Trevecca Nazarene University	Tennessee	70%	1,958
20	Milligan University	Tennessee	70.3%	1,164
21	Lee University	Tennessee	72.2%	2,150
22	Concorde Career College-Memphis	Tennessee	73.4%	597
23	The University of Tennessee-Chattanooga	Tennessee	77%	9,096
24	The University of Tennessee Southern	Tennessee	82.7%	613
25	Tennessee Technological University	Tennessee	83.2%	8,772
26	East Tennessee State University	Tennessee	87.1%	9,903
27	The University of Tennessee-Martin	Tennessee	87.3%	5,199
28	Christian Brothers University	Tennessee	88.4%	1,105
29	Freed-Hardeman University	Tennessee	90.6%	1,077
30	University of Memphis	Tennessee	93.4%	15,640
31	Austin Peay State University	Tennessee	96%	5,559
32	Belmont University	Tennessee	96.4%	8,950
33	Bethel University	Tennessee	97.2%	3,318