Lists and Rankings

Top 20 U.S. Colleges and Universities Enrolling International Students

These schools see more international traffic than Heathrow Airport. The number is the total enrollment of international students at each college.

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• 1. University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA): 7,115
• 2. Columbia University (New York, NY): 5,937
• 3. New York University (New York, NY): 5,827
• 4. University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (Champaign, IL): 5,685
• 5. Purdue University — West Lafayette (West Lafayette, IN): 5,581
• 6. University of Michigan — Ann Arbor (Ann Arbor, MI): 5,429
• 7. The University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX): 5,303
• 8. University of California — Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA): 4,704
• 9. Harvard University (Cambridge, MA): 4,514
• 10. Boston University (Boston, MA): 4,484
• 11. University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA): 4,484
• 12. Ohio State University — Columbus (Columbus, OH): 4,345
• 13. SUNY — University at Buffalo (Buffalo, NY): 4,103
• 14. Arizona State University (Tempe, AZ): 4,062
• 15. Indiana University Bloomington (Bloomington, IN): 3,976
• 16. Michigan State University (East Lansing, MI): 3,968
• 17. University of Florida (Gainesville, FL): 3,921
• 18. Texas A&M University — College Station (College Station, TX): 3,857
• 19. University of Wisconsin — Madison (Madison, WI): 3,829
• 20. Stanford University (Stanford, CA): 3,751

Source: R. Bhandari and P. Chow. Open Doors 2007: Report on International Educational Exchange. Institute of International Education, New York, 2007. Data are for 2005-2006. Reprinted with permission.