U.S. Institutions With the Most International Students, 2011-12
Many of the institutions that drew a high number of international students were in California and New York, but Midwestern states like Michigan and Minnesota also had several top-drawing colleges.
| Doctoral institutions | International students |
| University of Southern California | 9,269 |
| University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 8,997 |
| New York University | 8,660 |
| Purdue University, main campus | 8,563 |
| Columbia University | 8,024 |
| University of California at Los Angeles | 6,703 |
| Northeastern University | 6,486 |
| University of Michigan at Ann Arbor | 6,382 |
| Michigan State University | 6,209 |
| Ohio State University, main campus | 6,142 |
| Indiana University at Bloomington | 6,123 |
| Pennsylvania State University at University Park | 6,075 |
| Boston University | 6,041 |
| University of Minnesota-Twin Cities | 5,661 |
| Arizona State University | 5,616 |
| Master’s institutions | International students |
| California State University at Northridge | 2,803 |
| California State University at Long Beach | 2,563 |
| San Francisco State University | 2,469 |
| San Jose State University | 2,177 |
| Rochester Institute of Technology | 2,131 |
| California State University at Fullerton | 2,109 |
| Johnson & Wales University | 2,093 |
| Baruch College (CUNY) | 1,834 |
| University of Bridgeport | 1,813 |
| California State University-East Bay | 1,536 |
| New York Institute of Technology at Old Westbury | 1,495 |
| Suffolk University | 1,362 |
| St. Cloud State University | 1,250 |
| Fairleigh Dickinson University | 1,212 |
| University of Central Oklahoma | 1,195 |
| Baccalaureate institutions | International students |
| Brigham Young University, Hawaii campus | 1,021 |
| Brigham Young University, Idaho campus | 797 |
| Mount Holyoke College | 646 |
| Utah Valley State College | 461 |
| Calvin College | 392 |
| Dickinson State University | 368 |
| University of Richmond | 328 |
| Smith College | 327 |
| Middlebury College | 312 |
| New York City College of Technology (CUNY) | 296 |
| Wesleyan University | 287 |
| Wellesley College | 286 |
| DePauw University | 275 |
| College of Saint Benedict/Saint John’s University | 268 |
| Macalester College | 268 |
| Associate institutions | International students |
| Houston Community College | 5,829 |
| Santa Monica College | 3,296 |
| De Anza College | 2,551 |
| Lone Star College | 1,957 |
| Montgomery College | 1,787 |
| Miami Dade College | 1,649 |
| Diablo Valley College | 1,556 |
| Northern Virginia Community College | 1,446 |
| City College of San Francisco | 1,433 |
| Green River Community College | 1,407 |
| LaGuardia Community College (CUNY) | 1,374 |
| Seattle Central Community College | 1,347 |
| Foothill College | 1,304 |
| Edmonds Community College | 1,299 |
| Borough of Manhattan Community College (CUNY) | 1,287 |
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
