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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
		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