2021 Best Colleges in Tennessee for Students from Peru

With all of the options international students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Peruvian Students in Tennessee ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

We analyzed 2 colleges and universities across Tennessee to determine which were the best for Peruvian students in Tennessee. 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.

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Top Colleges in Tennessee for Students from Peru

See which schools came out on top of our ranking:

1

Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN

$56,966 Avg Tuition & Fees

10.3% International Students

Our 2021 rankings named Vanderbilt University the best school for Peruvian students in Tennessee working on their bachelor’s degree. Located in Nashville, Tennessee, the fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 2,365 diplomas to qualified bachelor’s degree students in 2020-2021.

Around 10.3% of the total student population at the school is international. Students from as far away as China, India, and South Korea come to Vanderbilt to study.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%.

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2

Tennessee Technological University
Cookeville, TN

$19,834 Avg Tuition & Fees

2.5% International Students

The excellent bachelor’s degree programs at Tennessee Technological University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best schools for Peruvian students in Tennessee. This medium-sized public school is located in Cookeville, Tennessee, and it awarded 1,905 bachelor’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Around 2.5% of the total student population at the school is international. The top three countries sending students to study at Tennessee Tech University are Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and India.

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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.