LACs with large international population

<p>Lake Forest College, around 10%. It’s funny, because Lake Forest is so pristine and white and LFC is a total rainbow. I live in the area. Here, being Asian and not Korean is diverse.</p>

<p>I think Connecticut College has about 6%.</p>

<p>[International</a> Student Counts By Institutional Type](<a href=“http://opendoors.iienetwork.org/?p=150815]International”>http://opendoors.iienetwork.org/?p=150815)</p>

<p>2009 data.</p>

<p>This gives top 40 international student counts by school type. I took the bacalaurete institution category and eliminated those schools with > 4200 students (which is generous because IMO a traditional LAC has < 3000 students). I then calculated percentage international students of the total students. These are the top 35</p>

<p>School–Intl Count–Total Count–% Intl
Brigham Young University - Hawaii Campus 1,039 2,399 43.31%
Mount Holyoke College 468 2,100 22.29%
Dickinson State University 431 2,720 15.85%
Westminster College 151 1,000 15.10%
Cooper Union 138 957 14.42%
Earlham College 172 1,200 14.33%
Macalester College 254 1,900 13.37%
Grinnell College 206 1,637 12.58%
University of Minnesota - Crookston 144 1,207 11.93%
Middlebury College 300 2,697 11.12%
Marietta College 154 1,489 10.34%
Lake Forest College 139 1,368 10.16%
University of Richmond 273 2,735 9.98%
Ohio Wesleyan University 191 1,950 9.79%
Wellesley College 220 2,380 9.24%
University of Hawaii - Hilo 348 3,773 9.22%
Wesleyan University 273 3,147 8.67%
Calvin College 357 4,171 8.56%
Franklin and Marshall College 189 2,228 8.48%
Northern State University 236 2,805 8.41%
Smith College 219 2,610 8.39%
Willamette University 209 2,716 7.70%
Montana Tech of the University of Montana 163 2,170 7.51%
Campbellsville University 212 2,830 7.49%
Vassar College 174 2,377 7.32%
Oberlin College 191 2,865 6.67%
College of Saint Benedict/Saint John’s University 271 4,090 6.63%
Lafayette College 155 2,382 6.51%
University of the Virgin Islands 154 2,393 6.44%
Southern Arkansas University - Main Campus 182 3,152 5.77%
Drew University 144 2,605 5.53%
Lewis and Clark College 184 3,565 5.16%
Colgate University 143 2,804 5.10%
Lewis-Clark State College 162 3,612 4.49%
Bucknell University 152 3,719 4.09%</p>

<p>Of course it would be possible for smaller schools with greater %'s to be excluded from this list.</p>

<p>bryn mawr has a large international population and is very generous to intl students in terms of financial aid</p>

<p>Lynn University has a significant international population.</p>

<p>BYU-Hawaii - 43%? That’s interesting.</p>

<p>NYU Abu Dhabi is 95 % international !!! :slight_smile: :)</p>

<p>For some unknown reason the IIE list of LACs, which is the basis of descartesz’s list above, has some significant omissions. For example, Bard claims to have 16% international students, which would pop them into the top five. Sarah Lawrence reports having 8%.</p>

<p>I don’t think a large international population depends on the prestige and reputation of a school…in my experience, international students tend to choose based on what school keeps contacting them, where they get the most financial aid, and which school has the nicest website. Since they generally can’t visit and don’t have the same college counseling services, the decision is often a tad random for international students.</p>

<p>I imagine there are quite a few graduates of United World Colleges (IB programs) that attend college in the U.S. If I were an international graduate of UWC, I would gravitate towards one of the 92 U.S. colleges that offers scholarships for UWC graduates [Davis</a> United World College Scholars Program - Participating Institutions](<a href=“http://www.davisuwcscholars.org/html-2009/institutions.html]Davis”>http://www.davisuwcscholars.org/html-2009/institutions.html) no matter how well known or prestigious it was.</p>

<p>Knowing my daughter, currently on high school exchange in S. America, she’ll want to attend one of these colleges with the most international students. Now I’ve just got to figure out which ones also offer Chinese and good merit aid. Sigh.</p>

<p>Apollo, I know for a fact Lawrence does both.</p>

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<p>I think another factor is the school’s already-existing international population. Without the ability to visit and lacking good information from their high schools, students may be drawn to schools that they know are welcoming of internationals. This info came to my D’s international roommate via word-of-mouth; she chose the school because some older students from her high school went there.</p>

<p>Wellesley College has 15% international students for the class of 2013. It’s also one of the most diverse colleges in the country and it’s the #4 LAC.</p>

<p>[Statistics</a> 2013](<a href=“http://www.wellesley.edu/admission/admission/statistics.html]Statistics”>http://www.wellesley.edu/admission/admission/statistics.html)</p>

<p>BYU-Hawaii’s large international population is not really that surprising. my bf is a freshman there and he, as a white male, is in the minority. a significant number of students from the islands and the pacific in general attend - even non-LDS members - because it is one of the best schools in the region and tuition is relatively inexpensive.</p>