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U.S. Institutions With the Most International Students, 2010-11

August 26, 2012

Doctoral institutions are more likely than other types of colleges to have thousands of international students, but a few community colleges near the southern U.S. border have more such students than do any master’s or baccalaureate institutions.

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U.S. Institutions With the Most International Students, 2010-11

Doctoral institutions are more likely than other types of colleges to have thousands of international students, but a few community colleges near the southern U.S. border have more such students than do any master’s or baccalaureate institutions.

DOCTORAL INSTITUTIONS
International students
1 University of Southern California 8,615
2 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 7,991
3 New York University 7,988
4 Purdue University, main campus 7,562
5 Columbia University 7,297
6 University of California at Los Angeles 6,249
7 Ohio State University, main campus 6,082
8 University of Michigan at Ann Arbor 5,995
9 Michigan State University 5,748
10 Harvard University 5,594
11 Indiana University at Bloomington 5,471
12 Boston University 5,464
13 University of Florida 5,393
14 University of Texas at Austin 5,323
15 Pennsylvania State University at University Park 5,207
16 Northeastern University 5,187
17 University at Buffalo (SUNY) 5,185
18 University of Minnesota-Twin Cities 5,124
19 Georgia Institute of Technology 4,943
20 Arizona State University 4,934
21 Texas A&M University 4,874
22 University of Pennsylvania 4,752
23 University of Wisconsin at Madison 4,647
24 University of Houston 4,377
25 Cornell University 4,357
26 University of California at Berkeley 4,239
27 University of Washington 4,233
28 Stanford University 4,179
29 Illinois Institute of Technology 4,076
30 University of Chicago 3,950
31 Carnegie Mellon University 3,853
32 University of Texas at Arlington 3,715
33 Iowa State University 3,631
34 University of Maryland at College Park 3,514
35 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 3,478
36 State University of New York at Stony Brook 3,324
37 University of Texas at Dallas 3,314
38 North Carolina State University 3,235
39 University of Arizona 3,095
40 Syracuse University 3,050
MASTER’S INSTITUTIONS
International students
1 University of Bridgeport 2,582
2 California State University at Northridge 2,579
3 San Jose State University 2,566
4 California State University at Long Beach 2,484
5 San Francisco State University 2,426
6 Johnson and Wales University 2,004
7 Baruch College (CUNY) 1,951
8 Rochester Institute of Technology 1,899
9 California State University at Fullerton 1,608
10 New York Institute of Technology at Old Westbury 1,557
11 California State University-East Bay 1,453
12 St. Cloud State University 1,355
13 Fairleigh Dickinson University 1,251
14 University of Central Oklahoma 1,188
15 Fashion Institute of Technology (SUNY) 1,116
16 Pratt Institute 1,066
17 California State University at Los Angeles 1,065
18 National University 1,035
19 Lindenwood University 1,023
20 Hawaii Pacific University 993
21 Liberty University 983
22 Eastern Michigan University 972
23 Suffolk University 960
24 Bentley University 949
25 Santa Clara University 928
26 City College of New York (CUNY) 920
27 Troy University 883
28 California State Polytechnic University at Pomona 863
29 Hunter College (CUNY) 860
30 Southern New Hampshire University 837
31 Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University at Daytona Beach 820
32 Towson University 792
33 University of Houston, Clear Lake campus 786
34 University of New Haven 773
35 California State University at Sacramento 761
36 Murray State University 758
37 University of Tampa 715
38 Queens College (CUNY) 710
39 Minnesota State University at Mankato 708
40 Western Kentucky University 687
BACCALAUREATE INSTITUTIONS
International students
1 Brigham Young University, Hawaii campus 1,000
2 Mount Holyoke College 595
3 Utah Valley State College 466
4 Brigham Young University, Idaho campus 424
5 Calvin College 382
6 University of Hawaii at Hilo 327
7 Middlebury College 322
8 Dickinson State University 320
9 University of Richmond 291
10 Wesleyan University 286
11 St. Petersburg College 278
12 Smith College 277
13 College of Saint Benedict/Saint John’s University 270
14 Wellesley College 265
15 Macalester College 254
16 Willamette University 247
17 Montana Tech of the University of Montana 229
18 Franklin & Marshall College 225
19 Northern State University 217
20 Lewis and Clark College 216
21 Earlham College 202
22 Grinnell College 201
23 Oberlin College 198
24 Westminster College 194
25 Soka University of America 189
26 Bryn Mawr College 187
27 La Roche College 184
28 Marietta College 183
29 Dickinson College 180
30 Ohio Wesleyan University 179
31 Carleton College 173
32 Lake Forest College 170
33 Vassar College 169
34 Bucknell University 168
35 Trinity College 167
36 Amherst College 164
36 Lafayette College 164
38 Wentworth Institute of Technology 161
39 Lawrence University 160
40 Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art 150
40 University of Charleston 150
ASSOCIATE INSTITUTIONS
International students
1 Houston Community College 6,261
2 Santa Monica College 3,107
3 Lone Star College 2,514
4 De Anza College 2,374
5 Montgomery College 1,895
6 Northern Virginia Community College 1,788
7 Miami Dade College 1,593
8 City College of San Francisco 1,432
9 Richland College 1,312
10 Diablo Valley College 1,296
11 Borough of Manhattan Community College (CUNY) 1,211
12 Green River Community College 1,203
13 Seattle Central Community College 1,197
14 Foothill College 1,137
15 Nassau Community College 1,134
16 Santa Barbara City College 1,108
17 Pasadena City College 1,105
18 Edmonds Community College 1,096
19 Bellevue College 948
20 Orange Coast College 910
21 North Lake College 889
22 East Los Angeles College 840
23 Los Angeles City College 820
24 El Camino College 800
25 Bergen Community College 784
26 Bunker Hill Community College 754
27 El Paso Community College 730
28 Collin College 719
29 Grossmont College 719
30 Portland Community College 711
31 Austin Community College 649
32 North Seattle Community College 644
32 Shoreline Community College 640
34 Johnson County Community College 628
35 College of Southern Nevada 622
36 Kapiolani Community College 621
37 Quincy College 601
38 Georgia Perimeter College 577
39 Broward College 491
40 Valencia Community College 475
Note: Categories are based on the 2010 Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. These are not entirely comparable to the classifications used in previous reports.
Source: Institute of International Education

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