2021 Best Colleges in the Far Western US Region for Students from Jamaica

When pursuing a degree in today's world, international students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our Best Colleges for Jamaican Students in the Far Western US Region ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

After analyzing 2 schools in the Far Western US Region , we came up with our list of those that offered the best educational experiences for Jamaican students in the Far Western US Region. Our ranking methodology focuses a number of different objective factors - such as the overall quality 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 Colleges in the Far Western US Region for Students from Jamaica

See which schools came out on top of our ranking:

1

Stanford University
Stanford, CA

$56,169 Avg Tuition & Fees

23.9% International Students

Our 2021 rankings named Stanford University the best school for Jamaican students in the Far Western US Region working on their bachelor’s degree. Stanford University is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in Stanford, California that handed out 1,511 bachelor’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Of the total number of students at the school, 23.9% are international. Students studying at Stanford come from such countries as China, India, and Canada.

Since the school has a student-to-faculty ratio of 4 to 1, those pursuing a bachelor’s degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Full Stanford University Report

2

La Sierra University
Riverside, CA

$34,218 Avg Tuition & Fees

11.1% International Students

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend La Sierra University. The school came in at #2 in this year’s ranking. La Sierra is located in Riverside, California and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 334 bachelor’s degrees to qualified undergraduates.

Around 11.1% of the total student population at the school is international. The top three countries sending students to study at La Sierra are China, South Korea, and Brazil.

Full La Sierra 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.