2021 Best Affordable Colleges in Maryland for Students from Italy

International students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its Best Value Colleges for Italian Students in Maryland ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

After analyzing 2 schools in Maryland, we came up with our list of those that offered the best educational experiences for Italian students in Maryland. Instead of depending on subjective information, we focus on objective factors to determine this ranking. These factors include such things as the total number of international students at the school and the school's overall value.

Find out more about our ranking methodology.

Customizing Your List

Since one ranking on its own is not enough to give you a complete understanding of your educational options, you can refine this list by location. We've also developed a number of other tools and rankings based on other factors. These other rankings highlight colleges that excel in other factors such as quality or diversity as well as schools that excel in serving different groups of students such as online students or returnings adults.

We've created a tool called College Combat that lets you create your own customized comparisons based on the factors that matter the most to you. If you're torn between two schools, you can use it to help you see how they stack up against one another. Bookmark it so you can compare any new schools that might interest you.

Top Value Colleges in Maryland for Students from Italy

See which schools came out on top of our ranking:

1

University of Maryland - College Park
College Park, MD

$38,638 Avg Undergrad Tuition & Fees

10.0% International Students

University of Maryland - College Park tops this year’s ranking as the best value school for Italian students in Maryland. University of Maryland - College Park is a large public school located in College Park, Maryland that handed out 8,838 bachelor’s degrees in 2020-2021.

International students make up 10.0% of the total student body at the school. Students studying at UMCP come from such countries as China, India, and South Korea. Out-of-state tuition and fees for undergraduates at UMCP is about $38,638 a year, on average. The average tuition and fees for graduate programs is $35,755 per year.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 95%.

Full University of Maryland - College Park Report

2

Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD

$58,720 Avg Undergrad Tuition & Fees

19.2% International Students

A rank of #2 on our list means Johns Hopkins University is a great place for Italian students in Maryland working on their bachelor’s degree. This large private not-for-profit school is located in Baltimore, Maryland, and it awarded 1,847 bachelor’s degrees in 2020-2021.

International students make up 19.2% of the total student body at the school. Students studying at Johns Hopkins come from such countries as China, India, and South Korea. International students at Johns Hopkins can expect to pay, on average, about $58,720 a year to attend the school. Graduate students pay around $61,202 a year in average tuition and fees.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full Johns Hopkins University Report

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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.