The Chronicle of Higher Education: International
From the issue dated November 22, 2002


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FOREIGN STUDENTS BY INSTITUTIONAL TYPE: TOP 40 RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS, 2001-2
Rank Institution City State Total Foreign Students Total Enrollment Proportion
1 U of Southern California Los Angeles CA 5,950 29,813 20.0%
2 New York U New York NY 5,504 37,134 14.8%
3 Columbia U New York NY 5,116 22,425 22.8%
4 Purdue U Main Campus West Lafayette IN 4,695 37,871 12.4%
5 U of Texas at Austin Austin TX 4,673 50,616 9.2%
6 Boston U Boston MA 4,412 27,767 15.9%
7 The Ohio State U Main Campus Columbus OH 4,302 48,477 8.9%
8 U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Champaign IL 4,287 37,684 11.4%
9 U of Michigan at Ann Arbor Ann Arbor MI 4,149 38,248 10.8%
10 U of Florida Gainesville FL 3,884 45,937 8.5%
11 U of Pennsylvania Philadelphia PA 3,820 21,853 17.5%
12 U of Wisconsin at Madison Madison WI 3,744 41,552 9.0%
13 U of Maryland at College Park College Park MD 3,711 34,160 10.9%
14 Texas A&M U at College Station College Station TX 3,563 44,689 8.0%
15 Pennsylvania State U at University Park University Park PA 3,484 40,828 8.5%
16 Harvard U Cambridge MA 3,448 18,308 18.8%
17 U of Houston Houston TX 3,380 33,007 10.2%
18 U of Minnesota-Twin Cities Minneapolis MN 3,356 47,597 7.1%
19 Arizona State U Main Campus Tempe AZ 3,348 45,693 7.3%
20 Indiana U at Bloomington Bloomington IN 3,325 37,963 8.8%
21 State U of New York at Buffalo Buffalo NY 3,237 25,838 12.5%
22 Wayne State U Detroit MI 3,233 31,040 10.4%
23 Cornell U Ithaca NY 3,181 19,420 16.4%
24 Michigan State U East Lansing MI 3,021 44,227 6.8%
25 U of Arizona Tucson AZ 2,951 32,870 9.0%
26 Stanford U Stanford CA 2,922 14,248 20.5%
27 U of Illinois at Chicago Chicago IL 2,898 24,530 11.8%
28 U of California at Los Angeles Los Angeles CA 2,794 36,890 7.6%
29 Rutgers U at New Brunswick New Brunswick NJ 2,779 35,308 7.9%
30 U of Washington at Seattle Seattle WA 2,736 37,412 7.3%
31 U of California at Berkeley Berkeley CA 2,735 32,128 8.5%
32 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge MA 2,734 10,698 25.6%
33 Northeastern U Boston MA 2,729 24,706 11.0%
34 U of South Florida Tampa FL 2,573 37,814 6.8%
35 Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta GA 2,547 15,401 16.5%
36 Iowa State U Ames IA 2,455 27,644 8.9%
37 Carnegie Mellon U Pittsburgh PA 2,395 8,588 27.9%
38 U of Chicago Chicago IL 2,173 12,705 17.1%
39 Syracuse U Syracuse NY 2,132 18,105 11.8%
40 Virginia Tech Blacksburg VA 2,087 25,000 8.3%