California had the highest number of colleges on the top-15 lists for enrolling international students, even though none of its baccalaureate institutions were among the top 15. Massachusetts and New York had the next-highest numbers of institutions on the lists.

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August 18, 2014

U.S. Institutions With the Most Foreign Students, 2012-13

	Doctoral institutions	Foreign students
1.	U. of Southern California	9,840
2.	U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	9,804
3.	Purdue U., main campus	9,509
4.	New York U.	9,362
5.	Columbia U.	8,797
6.	U. of California at Los Angeles	8,424
7.	Northeastern U.	7,705
8.	U. of Michigan at Ann Arbor	6,827
9.	Michigan State U.	6,759
10.	Pennsylvania State U. at U. Park	6,693
11.	Arizona State U.	6,645
12.	Boston U.	6,615
13.	Indiana U. at Bloomington	6,547
14.	U. of Washington	6,491
15.	Ohio State U.	6,478
	Master’s institutions	Foreign students
1.	California State U. at Long Beach	2,978
2.	California State U. at Northridge	2,906
3.	California State U. at Fullerton	2,401
4.	San Francisco State U.	2,326
5.	Rochester Institute of Technology	2,310
6.	San Jose State U.	2,194
7.	Johnson and Wales U.	2,188
8.	Baruch College/City U. of New York	1,781
9.	U. of Bridgeport	1,736
10.	Suffolk U.	1,540
11.	Missouri State U.	1,482
12.	California State U.-East Bay	1,471
13.	New York Institute of Technology	1,379
14.	U. of Central Oklahoma	1,306
15.	Pratt Institute	1,289
	Baccalaureate institutions	Foreign students
1.	Brigham Young U., Hawaii campus	1,046
2.	Mount Holyoke College	664
3.	Brigham Young U., Idaho campus	610
4.	Utah Valley State College	479
5.	Calvin College	426
6.	U. of Richmond	374
7.	Smith College	334
8.	Middlebury College	316
9.	Wellesley College	304
10.	Wesleyan U. (Conn.)	303
11.	Bryn Mawr College	296
12.	Macalester College	294
13.	Lewis and Clark College	272
14.	DePauw U.	270
15.	College of Saint Benedict/Saint John’s U. (Minn.)	263
	Associate institutions	Foreign students
1.	Houston Community College	5,333
2.	Santa Monica College (Calif.)	3,471
3.	De Anza College (Calif.)	2,728
4.	Lone Star College (Tex.)	2,112
5.	Northern Virginia Community College	1,901
6.	Seattle Central Community College	1,718
7.	Diablo Valley College (Calif.)	1,663
8.	Montgomery College (Md.)	1,637
9.	Miami-Dade College	1,579
10.	City College of San Francisco	1,559
10.	Green River Community College (Wash.)	1,559
12.	Santa Barbara City College (Calif.)	1,496
13.	Foothill College (Calif.)	1,483
14.	Edmonds Community College (Wash.)	1,266
15.	Richland College (Tex.)	1,193
Note: Institution types are based on the 2010 Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. These are not entirely comparable to the classifications used in previous reports. Tied institutions are listed in alphabetical order.
Source: Institute of International Education