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U.S. Institutions With the Most International Students, 2011-12

August 19, 2013
International

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.

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International

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

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