Increasing International Enrollment at Some top Universities

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Chicago ✅
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Percentage Increase in International Enrollment at Various Universities since 2004 based on

http://highereddatastories.blogspot.com/

** Negative**
Stanford: -1.37% (Rose sharply between 2008 and 2011 and then plummeted, Maybe the Economic crisis?)
20% to 30%
Penn: 19.75%
Harvard: 24.11%
Yale: 28.84%
31% to 40%
MIT: 32.53%
Princeton: 40.67%
UChicago: 40.86%
41% to 50%
Cornell: 48.10%
over 60%
Dartmouth: 65.62%
Brown: 65.5%
over 100%
Columbia: 101.2%
Berkeley: 129%

What do you think is going on? Why are Columbia, Berkeley so much higher than other schools?

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Berkeley isn’t too hard to explain. California cut the UC system’s budget, so the percentage of OOS students has crept up. Full-pay international students are a highly sought-after group for any college working with budget constraints.

As for Columbia, the most likely explanation is simply that Columbia decided it wanted a more diverse campus with a larger international population. That’s probably true of the other schools here as well.