2021 Best Colleges in Minnesota for Students from Italy

It's not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for international students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our Best Colleges for Italian Students in Minnesota ranking - to help you make that decision.

After analyzing 2 schools in Minnesota, we came up with our list of those that offered the best educational experiences for Italian students in Minnesota. Our ranking is based on several objective factors, including the school's overall quality and the total number of international students at the school. We steer clear of subjective measures since they don't give a clear picture when determining how one school compares to another.

Learn more about our ranking methodology.

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Top Colleges in Minnesota for Students from Italy

See which schools came out on top of our ranking:

1

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Minneapolis, MN

$33,818 Avg Tuition & Fees

10.0% International Students

Our 2021 rankings named University of Minnesota - Twin Cities the best school for Italian students in Minnesota working on their bachelor’s degree. UMN Twin Cities is a public institution located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The school has a large population, and it awarded 9,414 bachelor’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Around 10.0% of the total student population at the school is international. Students from as far away as China, India, and South Korea come to UMN Twin Cities to study.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%.

Full University of Minnesota - Twin Cities Report

2

Minneapolis College of Art and Design
Minneapolis, MN

$41,794 Avg Tuition & Fees

3.4% International Students

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Minneapolis College of Art and Design. The school came in at #2 in this year’s ranking. Minneapolis, Minnesota is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelor’s degrees to 148 students in 2020-2021.

International students make up 3.4% of the total student body at the school. The top three countries sending students to study at MCAD are China, Italy, and United Kingdom.

With a student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Read full report on Minneapolis College of Art and Design

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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.