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U.S. Colleges With the Highest Percentages of Nonresident-Alien Students, Fall 2012

August 18, 2014

U.S. Colleges With the Highest Percentages of Nonresident-Alien Students, Fall 2012

Almost all of the colleges with more than 45-percent enrollment of nonresident aliens are small institutions with fewer than 500 students. Four seminaries and three business schools are among the 10 institutions with the largest shares of nonresident-alien students.

Rank	4-year public institutions	Total enrollment	Percentage nonresident aliens
1.	Fort Hays State U.	11,075	33.9%
2.	U. of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas	2,391	24.4%
3.	Seattle Central Community College	3,609	18.0%
4.	U. at Buffalo	19,094	16.3%
5.	Purdue U. at West Lafayette	31,055	15.9%
6.	Fashion Institute of Technology	8,012	14.1%

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August 18, 2014

U.S. Colleges With the Highest Percentages of Nonresident-Alien Students, Fall 2012

Rank	4-year public institutions	Total enrollment	Percentage nonresident aliens
1.	Fort Hays State U.	11,075	33.9%
2.	U. of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas	2,391	24.4%
3.	Seattle Central Community College	3,609	18.0%
4.	U. at Buffalo	19,094	16.3%
5.	Purdue U. at West Lafayette	31,055	15.9%
6.	Fashion Institute of Technology	8,012	14.1%
7.	U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	31,260	13.1%
8.	U. of Washington	27,988	12.8%
9.	U. of Maine at Presque Isle	1,022	11.9%
10.	City U. of New York Bernard M. Baruch College	13,584	11.9%
Rank	4-year private nonprofit institutions	Total enrollment	Percentage nonresident aliens
1.	Knowledge Systems Institute	125	98.4%
2.	Pacific States U.	156	90.4%
3.	Hult International Business School at Boston	481	85.7%
4.	Divine Word College	101	61.4%
5.	Thunderbird School of Global Management	1,187	54.2%
6.	Bethesda U. of California	256	52.7%
7.	Central Baptist Theological Seminary (Kan.)	255	47.5%
8.	North American College	304	46.4%
9.	U. of the West	180	45.6%
10.	Calvin Theological Seminary	295	45.4%
Rank	4-year private for-profit institutions	Total enrollment	Percentage nonresident aliens
1.	Musicians Institute	1,253	28.4%
2.	School of Visual Arts	3,493	24.6%
3.	DeVry U. Keller Graduate School of Management	846	20.8%
4.	Academy of Art U.	11,517	19.9%
5.	DeVry U. Keller Graduate School of Management (Md.)	109	18.4%
6.	Berkeley College at New York	4,780	15.5%
7.	U. of East-West Medicine	196	14.3%
8.	Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising at Los Angeles	3,743	12.1%
9.	NewSchool of Architecture and Design	389	11.1%
10.	DeVry U. Keller Graduate School of Management (N.J.)	319	9.7%
Rank	2-year public institutions	Total enrollment	Percentage nonresident aliens
1.	Baltimore City Community College	4,906	11.7%
2.	Shoreline Community College	2,795	11.5%
3.	Santa Monica College	27,962	10.8%
4.	Quincy College	3,851	10.7%
5.	Edmonds Community College	4,711	10.5%
6.	New Mexico Military Institute	490	10.2%
7.	Community College of Philadelphia	18,058	10.1%
8.	City U. of New York La Guardia Community College	16,549	10.1%
9.	Central Piedmont Community College	18,021	9.9%
10.	Kapiolani Community College	6,306	9.8%
Note: Figures are for degree-seeking students attending degree-granting U.S. institutions that have at least 100 students and that participate in Title IV federal financial-aid programs. A nonresident alien is a person who is not a citizen or national of the United States and who is in this country on a visa or temporary basis and does not have the right to remain indefinitely. Seattle Central Community College is listed among four-year public institutions because it offers some bachelor’s degrees in addition to associate degrees.
Source: Chronicle analysis of U.S. Department of Education data