2021 Best Colleges in Wisconsin for Students from Russia

International students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. At College Factual, we're committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our Best Colleges for Russian Students in Wisconsin ranking.

After analyzing 2 schools in Wisconsin, we came up with our list of those that offered the best educational experiences for Russian students in Wisconsin. 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 quality.

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Top Colleges in Wisconsin for Students from Russia

See which schools came out on top of our ranking:

1

University of Wisconsin - Madison
Madison, WI

$38,608 Avg Tuition & Fees

13.2% International Students

Our 2021 rankings named University of Wisconsin - Madison the best school for Russian students in Wisconsin working on their bachelor’s degree. Madison, Wisconsin is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelor’s degrees to 9,926 students in 2020-2021.

Around 13.2% of the total student population at the school is international. The top three countries sending students to study at UW - Madison are China, India, and South Korea.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 95%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

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2

Marquette University
Milwaukee, WI

$45,766 Avg Tuition & Fees

3.2% International Students

The excellent bachelor’s degree programs at Marquette University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best schools for Russian students in Wisconsin. Marquette is a private not-for-profit institution located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 2,386 bachelor’s degrees in 2020-2021.

International students make up 3.2% of the total student body at the school. Students from as far away as China, India, and Bangladesh come to Marquette to study.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 88%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

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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.