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US Colleges with the Highest Share of International Students (2026)
A high international share usually means established support services, larger international communities, and admissions offices experienced with foreign credentials. These are the US colleges where international students make up the largest slice of the undergraduate body.
Methodology: Share of non-resident undergraduate students (UGDS_NRA) from the US Department of Education College Scorecard. Colleges with fewer than 1,000 undergraduates excluded. Source: US Department of Education College Scorecard. Always verify current figures on each school's official site.
| # | College | Location | International share | Acceptance | Tuition (out-of-state) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brigham Young University-Hawaii | Laie, Hawaii | 61.0% | 47.0% | $6,630 |
| 2 | School of Visual Arts | New York, New York | 48.7% | 92.6% | $51,400 |
| 3 | Art Center College of Design | Pasadena, California | 44.1% | 74.5% | $54,170 |
| 4 | The New School | New York, New York | 34.3% | 63.5% | $58,694 |
| 5 | Rhode Island School of Design | Providence, Rhode Island | 33.1% | 18.7% | $62,688 |
| 6 | Berklee College of Music | Boston, Massachusetts | 31.9% | 43.5% | $52,040 |
| 7 | Missouri Valley College | Marshall, Missouri | 28.5% | 69.2% | $23,700 |
| 8 | Babson College | Wellesley, Massachusetts | 28.3% | 17.1% | $57,152 |
| 9 | School of the Art Institute of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois | 27.9% | 77.5% | $56,420 |
| 10 | Pratt Institute-Main | Brooklyn, New York | 26.7% | 73.3% | $61,845 |
| 11 | Knox College | Galesburg, Illinois | 26.6% | 70.8% | $57,903 |
| 12 | New York University | New York, New York | 26.1% | 9.2% | $62,796 |
| 13 | Niagara University | Niagara University, New York | 25.1% | 87.4% | $39,345 |
| 14 | DePauw University | Greencastle, Indiana | 22.6% | 57.2% | $59,070 |
| 15 | Caldwell University | Caldwell, New Jersey | 22.5% | 71.3% | $40,848 |
| 16 | University of Rochester | Rochester, New York | 22.5% | 40.1% | $67,080 |
| 17 | Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts | 21.2% | 11.1% | $68,102 |
| 18 | Grinnell College | Grinnell, Iowa | 21.0% | 14.5% | $68,106 |
| 19 | Andrews University | Berrien Springs, Michigan | 20.8% | 81.8% | $35,056 |
| 20 | Ringling College of Art and Design | Sarasota, Florida | 20.5% | 69.7% | $57,900 |
| 21 | Augustana College | Rock Island, Illinois | 20.0% | 62.7% | $51,598 |
| 22 | Lake Forest College | Lake Forest, Illinois | 19.8% | 56.8% | $56,402 |
| 23 | Columbia University in the City of New York | New York, New York | 19.7% | 4.0% | $71,845 |
| 24 | Mount Holyoke College | South Hadley, Massachusetts | 19.5% | 36.0% | $67,018 |
| 25 | Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts | 19.3% | 40.5% | $68,080 |
| 26 | Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | 19.1% | 11.7% | $66,246 |
| 27 | Maryland Institute College of Art | Baltimore, Maryland | 19.0% | 76.8% | $56,800 |
| 28 | Huston-Tillotson University | Austin, Texas | 19.0% | 39.1% | $26,709 |
| 29 | Otis College of Art and Design | Los Angeles, California | 18.6% | 81.8% | $56,488 |
| 30 | Oral Roberts University | Tulsa, Oklahoma | 18.6% | 98.9% | $35,470 |
| 31 | Gannon University | Erie, Pennsylvania | 18.2% | 74.2% | $40,656 |
| 32 | University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois | 17.6% | 4.5% | $70,662 |
| 33 | Denison University | Granville, Ohio | 17.5% | 17.4% | $67,000 |
| 34 | Webster University | Saint Louis, Missouri | 17.4% | 86.2% | $31,750 |
| 35 | Franklin and Marshall College | Lancaster, Pennsylvania | 17.0% | 28.2% | $70,794 |
| 36 | Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia | 15.8% | 10.7% | $64,280 |
| 37 | Barnard College | New York, New York | 15.6% | 8.8% | $69,888 |
| 38 | Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland | 15.2% | 6.4% | $65,230 |
| 39 | Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire | 15.1% | 5.4% | $68,268 |
| 40 | Emerson College | Boston, Massachusetts | 15.0% | 51.3% | $57,056 |
| 41 | Claremont McKenna College | Claremont, California | 14.8% | 9.6% | $67,980 |
| 42 | Luther College | Decorah, Iowa | 14.8% | 71.5% | $52,120 |
| 43 | Lynn University | Boca Raton, Florida | 14.8% | 73.5% | $44,480 |
| 44 | Macalester College | Saint Paul, Minnesota | 14.7% | 28.5% | $68,104 |
| 45 | Bentley University | Waltham, Massachusetts | 14.6% | 45.1% | $61,000 |
| 46 | Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts | 14.6% | 3.6% | $61,676 |
| 47 | St. Thomas University | Miami Gardens, Florida | 14.5% | 97.9% | $34,770 |
| 48 | Calvin University | Grand Rapids, Michigan | 14.5% | 70.9% | $39,350 |
| 49 | Whitman College | Walla Walla, Washington | 14.4% | 38.1% | $64,050 |
| 50 | The College of Wooster | Wooster, Ohio | 14.2% | 59.5% | $61,640 |
| 51 | North Carolina Wesleyan University | Rocky Mount, North Carolina | 14.2% | 80.2% | $35,736 |
| 52 | Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Harrisburg | Middletown, Pennsylvania | 14.1% | 97.6% | $26,958 |
| 53 | Bard College | Annandale-On-Hudson, New York | 14.1% | 52.1% | $66,436 |
| 54 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | Champaign, Illinois | 13.9% | 42.4% | $35,124 |
| 55 | Saint Cloud State University | Saint Cloud, Minnesota | 13.9% | 94.8% | $10,245 |
| 56 | Savannah College of Art and Design | Savannah, Georgia | 13.9% | 83.0% | $41,630 |
| 57 | Gettysburg College | Gettysburg, Pennsylvania | 13.8% | 38.9% | $66,640 |
| 58 | Trinity College | Hartford, Connecticut | 13.8% | 29.3% | $70,770 |
| 59 | Smith College | Northampton, Massachusetts | 13.7% | 21.0% | $65,178 |
| 60 | Northeastern University Professional Programs | Boston, Massachusetts | 13.7% | — | — |
| 61 | Pomona College | Claremont, California | 13.7% | 7.1% | $65,420 |
| 62 | Northeastern University | Boston, Massachusetts | 13.6% | 5.2% | $66,162 |
| 63 | Barry University | Miami, Florida | 13.5% | 77.2% | $34,350 |
| 64 | Swarthmore College | Swarthmore, Pennsylvania | 13.4% | 7.5% | $65,494 |
| 65 | Wellesley College | Wellesley, Massachusetts | 13.4% | 14.1% | $67,176 |
| 66 | Georgetown University | Washington, Washington, D.C. | 13.3% | 12.9% | $68,017 |
| 67 | University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California | 13.3% | 9.8% | $72,097 |
| 68 | Amherst College | Amherst, Massachusetts | 13.1% | 9.0% | $70,480 |
| 69 | Bryn Mawr College | Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania | 13.1% | 29.4% | $65,920 |
| 70 | Illinois Institute of Technology | Chicago, Illinois | 13.0% | 54.9% | $52,386 |
| 71 | University of California-Davis | Davis, California | 12.8% | 41.8% | $50,974 |
| 72 | Rice University | Houston, Texas | 12.8% | 8.0% | $64,144 |
| 73 | Stanford University | Stanford, California | 12.8% | 3.6% | $65,910 |
| 74 | University of Lynchburg | Lynchburg, Virginia | 12.8% | 43.0% | $36,750 |
| 75 | Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island | 12.7% | 5.4% | $71,412 |
| 76 | Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey | 12.6% | 4.6% | $62,688 |
| 77 | University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | 12.6% | 5.4% | $68,686 |
| 78 | Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts | 12.6% | 11.5% | $70,704 |
| 79 | Trevecca Nazarene University | Nashville, Tennessee | 12.4% | 69.4% | $31,300 |
| 80 | Fisher College | Boston, Massachusetts | 12.3% | 70.7% | $35,689 |
| 81 | Florida Institute of Technology | Melbourne, Florida | 12.3% | 57.7% | $45,900 |
| 82 | Middlebury College | Middlebury, Vermont | 12.3% | 10.8% | $67,600 |
| 83 | University of California-Irvine | Irvine, California | 12.3% | 28.6% | $49,922 |
| 84 | Mount Mercy University | Cedar Rapids, Iowa | 12.3% | 82.5% | $40,878 |
| 85 | Kenyon College | Gambier, Ohio | 12.2% | 31.0% | $71,520 |
| 86 | Queens University of Charlotte | Charlotte, North Carolina | 12.2% | 62.1% | $45,846 |
| 87 | North Park University | Chicago, Illinois | 12.2% | 68.5% | $36,710 |
| 88 | Dickinson College | Carlisle, Pennsylvania | 12.0% | 42.1% | $65,650 |
| 89 | Fairleigh Dickinson University-Metropolitan Campus | Teaneck, New Jersey | 11.9% | 90.7% | $38,004 |
| 90 | Suffolk University | Boston, Massachusetts | 11.9% | 82.3% | $47,550 |
| 91 | Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences | Boston, Massachusetts | 11.8% | 85.2% | $40,530 |
| 92 | University of Washington-Seattle Campus | Seattle, Washington | 11.7% | 39.1% | $43,209 |
| 93 | Marymount University | Arlington, Virginia | 11.7% | 93.2% | $40,920 |
| 94 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts | 11.7% | 4.5% | $62,396 |
| 95 | Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois | 11.6% | 7.7% | $68,322 |
| 96 | Youngstown State University | Youngstown, Ohio | 11.5% | 84.5% | $11,473 |
| 97 | Academy of Art University | San Francisco, California | 11.5% | — | $30,736 |
| 98 | University at Buffalo | Buffalo, New York | 11.5% | 74.2% | $31,536 |
| 99 | Indiana Institute of Technology | Fort Wayne, Indiana | 11.5% | 70.4% | $31,361 |
| 100 | The College of Idaho | Caldwell, Idaho | 11.4% | 49.1% | $37,845 |
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