10 Engineering Schools With the Most International Students

10 Engineering Schools With the Most International Students

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Nearly every graduate engineering school in the United States enrolls international students. But a handful of full-time programs enroll many more students from abroad than others.

All of the 194 ranked graduate engineering schools that report data to U.S. News reported enrolling full-time students from other countries in fall 2011. On average, international students accounted for 54 percent of student bodiesâ€"and at 19 institutions, made up more than 75 percent. 

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At the 11 graduate engineering schools that enrolled the highest percentages of full-time international students in fall 2011, students from abroad account for at least 81 percentâ€"and, in one case, 95 percentâ€"of full-time students. The school with 95 percent of students hailing from abroad, the University of Bridgeport School of Engineering in Connecticut, receives a Rank Not Published (RNP) designation from U.S. News, meaning its numerical ranking, while calculated, falls below the U.S. News cutoff and was not published. Unranked schools, which do not submit enough data for U.S. News to calculate a ranking, were not considered for this list. 

The schools with the largest proportions of international students are located in very different parts of the United States. Three are in Texas, a southern state, while a few are in the Northeast, scattered through New York state and Connecticut. One school is in Kansas, and another in Missouriâ€"both located in the middle of the country. Students considering coming to the United States for engineering school should research the location of prospective schools, as well as specific program offerings at each institution. 

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These are the engineering schools in which international students made up the largest proportions of the full-time student body in fall 2011. (Due to ties, there are 11 schools on this list.)

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U.S. News surveyed 198 schools for our 2011 survey of engineering programs. Schools self-reported a myriad of data regarding their academic programs and the makeup of their student body, among other areas, making U.S. News's data the most accurate and detailed collection of college facts and figures of its kind. While U.S. News uses much of this survey data to rank schools for our annual Best Engineering Schools rankings, the data can also be useful when examined on a smaller scale. U.S. News will now produce lists of data, separate from the overall rankings, meant to provide students and parents a means to find which schools excel, or have room to grow, in specific areas that are important to them. While the data come from the schools themselves, these lists are not related to, and have no influence over, U.S. News's rankings of Best Colleges or Best Graduate Schools.