2021 Best Colleges in Minnesota for Students from Netherlands

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

Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Minnesota to determine which ones were the best for Dutch students in Minnesota. To come up with this ranking, we look at a number of factors that are all objective measurements. These factors include the school's overall quality as determined by our Best Colleges ranking and the percentage of international students on campus.

See what other factors we include in our ranking methodology.

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Top Colleges in Minnesota for Students from Netherlands

See which schools came out on top of our ranking:

1

Macalester College
Saint Paul, MN

$60,518 Avg Tuition & Fees

14.3% International Students

Our analysis found Macalester College to be the best school for Dutch students in Minnesota in this year’s ranking. Saint Paul, Minnesota is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelor’s degrees to 585 students in 2020-2021.

International students make up 14.3% of the total student body at the school. Students from as far away as China, India, and Vietnam come to Macalester to study.

With a freshman retention rate of 90%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

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2

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Minneapolis, MN

$33,818 Avg Tuition & Fees

10.0% International Students

The excellent bachelor’s degree programs at University of Minnesota - Twin Cities helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best schools for Dutch students in Minnesota. Minneapolis, Minnesota is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelor’s degrees to 9,414 students in 2020-2021.

International students make up 10.0% of the total student body at the school. Students from as far away as China, India, and South Korea come to UMN Twin Cities to study.

With a freshman retention rate of 93%, 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.