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- Illinois Institute of Technology
The leading US university for international students is Illinois Institute of Technology, also known as Illinois Tech or IIT, which receives a perfect score of 100 in the ‘International Students’ indicator of the rankings. Located in the fast-paced student city of Chicago, the university’s total enrolment of almost 8,000 students includes over 1,000 from minority groups. IIT’s graduate school is particularly diverse, with 65% of graduate students coming from overseas and 100 nationalities represented overall in IIT’s student body.
- Carnegie Mellon University
Achieving a near-perfect score of 99.8 for its proportion of international students, Carnegie Mellon University is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and is home to 13,650 students representing 114 countries, with 58% of graduate students coming from outside of the US. As well as having satellite centers in Silicon Valley and Manhattan in the US, Carnegie Mellon was the first US university to open a campus in Australia (in Adelaide) and it also runs an undergraduate branch campus in Doha, Qatar.
- Stevens Institute of Technology
The third-highest ranked university in the US for international students is Stevens Institute of Technology, which markets itself as ‘the innovation university’. Located in Hoken, New Jersey, the university has a diverse student population, drawn from over 50 countries worldwide. Its International Student and Scholar Services (ISSS) aims to ease the transition for overseas students by assisting them with official visa forms, as well as offering cross-cultural exchange programs.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
The world’s top university in the QS World University Rankings, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) achieves a strong score for the diversity of its students, and is also the highest-ranked US university in the indicator assessing the proportion of international faculty members. Some 3,289 of MIT’s 11,331 students are international, including 42% of graduate students. The university also welcomed 539 exchange, visiting and special students in 2015-2016. As well as a prestigious education, the university is known for its need-blind policy and generous financial aid, meaning that any student granted admission will also be sufficiently supported to attend.
