Forbes Ranks Schools For International Students

Forbes: “Though America still hosts over a million foreign learners, first-time international undergraduates in the U.S. sank 6.6% in 2017 according to the IIE, a nonprofit that tracks international exchange in education. Even the schools that prioritize international students have been hit by the trend. At Forbes’ 50 Top Schools for International Students of 2019 (full list below), the percentage of undergraduates who were international surged from 7.6% in 2009 to 11.3% in 2016. In 2017, it nudged to 11.5%, a mere 0.2% increase.”

“To put together our best schools for international student ranking, we used experts’ insights and our philosophy of ‘outputs over inputs.’ We weight school quality at 60%, based on our Top Colleges rankings’ methodology. Drawing from the federal government’s IPEDS database, we weigh international student six-year graduation rate at 15% of our ranking. We reward schools with full-need aid or need-blind admission policies for international students, data we draw from schools’ websites, with 5% of our ranking each.”

“Schools with high enrollment figures in international students’ most popular majors like engineering, business and math are rewarded up to 5% (per the IIE and the government’s College Scorecard database). The size of schools’ international student body (measured as a percentage of undergrads and calculated by IPEDS) accounts for 5% of our score. The remaining 5% of the score is based on the number of foreign-born workers in the college’s combined statistical area, from the U.S. Census.”

Here is the full list of the 2019 Top Schools for International Students:

Princeton University
 
 Yale University
 
 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 
 Harvard University
 
 Columbia University
 
 California Institute of Technology
 
 Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
 
 Amherst College
 
 Stanford University
 
 Babson College
 
 University of Pennsylvania
 
 Claremont McKenna College
 
 Georgetown University
 
 Brown University
 
 New York University
 
 Pomona College
 
 Cornell University
 
 Johns Hopkins University
 
 Lafayette College
 
 University of Chicago
 
 Dartmouth College
 
 University of California-Los Angeles
 
 University of Notre Dame
 
 Harvey Mudd College
 
 Barnard College
 
 Northwestern University
 
 Carnegie Mellon University
 
 Rice University
 
 Swarthmore College
 
 Tufts University
 
 Williams College
 
 Vassar College
 
 University of Southern California
 
 Vanderbilt University
 
 Bowdoin College
 
 Haverford College
 
 Pitzer College
 
 Washington University in St Louis
 
 Bates College
 
 Wesleyan University
 
 Wellesley College
 
 University of California-Berkeley
 
 Boston College
 
 Middlebury College
 
 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
 
 Carleton College
 
 University of Maryland-College Park
 
 Grinnell College
 
 Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus
 
 Colgate University