2021 Best Affordable Colleges in Alabama for Students from Indonesia

When pursuing a degree in today's world, international students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its Best Value Colleges for Indonesian Students in Alabama ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

After analyzing 2 schools in Alabama, we came up with our list of those that offered the best educational experiences for Indonesian students in Alabama. Our ranking methodology focuses on a number of different objective factors - such as the overall value of the school, number of total international students at the school, and the percentage of international students on campus - to make this determination.

Get more details on our ranking methodology.

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Top Value Colleges in Alabama for Students from Indonesia

See which schools came out on top of our ranking:

1

University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, AL

$20,400 Avg Undergrad Tuition & Fees

4.8% International Students

Our analysis found University of Alabama at Birmingham to be the best affordable school for Indonesian students in Alabama in this year’s ranking. This large public school is located in Birmingham, Alabama, and it awarded 2,965 bachelor’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Around 4.8% of the total student population at the school is international. The top three countries sending students to study at UAB are India, China, and Saudi Arabia. Yearly tuition and fees (out-of-state) for undergraduates at UAB runs, on average, about $20,400. The average tuition and fees for graduate programs is $19,188 per year.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%.

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Auburn University
Auburn, AL

$31,986 Avg Undergrad Tuition & Fees

8.1% International Students

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Auburn University. It ranked #2 on our 2021 Best Colleges for Indonesian students in Alabama list. Auburn is a large public school situated in Auburn, Alabama. It awarded 5,840 bachelor’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Of the total number of students at the school, 8.1% are international. Students from as far away as China, India, and Saudi Arabia come to Auburn to study. International students at Auburn can expect to pay, on average, about $31,986 a year to attend the school. Graduate students pay around $31,986 a year in average tuition and fees.

With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

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Notes and References

Footnotes

*Avg Tuition and Fees and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top 2 schools only.

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

More about our data sources and methodologies.