2021 Best Colleges in New Jersey for Students from Sri Lanka

With all of the options international students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our Best Colleges for Sri Lankan Students in New Jersey ranking is part of that endeavor.

Our analysis looked at 2 schools in New Jersey to determine which ones were the best for Sri Lankan students in New Jersey. 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.

Find out more about our ranking methodology.

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Top Colleges in New Jersey for Students from Sri Lanka

See which schools came out on top of our ranking:

1

Rutgers University - New Brunswick
New Brunswick, NJ

$33,005 Avg Tuition & Fees

11.4% International Students

Our analysis found Rutgers University - New Brunswick to be the best school for Sri Lankan students in New Jersey in this year’s ranking. Rutgers University - New Brunswick is a large public school located in New Brunswick, New Jersey that handed out 8,803 bachelor’s degrees in 2020-2021.

International students make up 11.4% of the total student body at the school. Students studying at Rutgers New Brunswick come from such countries as China, India, and South Korea.

With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

Full Rutgers University - New Brunswick Report

2

New Jersey Institute of Technology
Newark, NJ

$34,034 Avg Tuition & Fees

14.5% International Students

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend New Jersey Institute of Technology. It ranked #2 on our 2021 Best Colleges for Sri Lankan students in New Jersey list. New Jersey Institute of Technology is a fairly large public school located in Newark, New Jersey that handed out 1,863 bachelor’s degrees in 2020-2021.

International students make up 14.5% of the total student body at the school. Students studying at NJIT come from such countries as India, China, and Taiwan.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on New Jersey Institute of Technology

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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.