List of top 10 US Universities for Engineering with very low acceptance rate

The following table enlists the top 10 US Universities having very low acceptance rates for Engineering admissions. All these Universities are ranked in the top 50 US Universities for engineering programs.

University	Acceptance rate	Engineering rank
Harvard University	7%	19
California Institute of Technology	9%	5
Michigan State University	9.90%	49
Princeton University	10.60%	21
University of Wisconsin Madison	14%	17
University of California Berkeley	14.40%	3
Yale University	14.60%	34
Iowa State University	16.40%	43
Rice University	16.50%	31
University of Virginia	16.90%	39
Massachussets Institute of Technology	17.50%	1

The acceptance rates of the Universities is based on the ratio of the number of admits given and the number of applicants to the particular University . Hence, the figures mentioned are only an indication of the percentage of students admitted. If a University has only a limited number of seats and number of applications are very high, naturally, its acceptance ratio will be very low.

Source: US news and World report