2021 Best Colleges in Connecticut for Students from Sri Lanka

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 Sri Lankan Students in Connecticut ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

We analyzed 2 colleges and universities across Connecticut to determine which were the best for Sri Lankan students in Connecticut. 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.

Learn more about our ranking methodology.

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Top Colleges in Connecticut for Students from Sri Lanka

See which schools came out on top of our ranking:

1

University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT

$41,192 Avg Tuition & Fees

13.1% International Students

University of Connecticut tops this year’s ranking as the best school for Sri Lankan students in Connecticut. Located in Storrs, Connecticut, the large public school handed out 5,991 bachelor’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Around 13.1% of the total student population at the school is international. Students studying at UCONN come from such countries as China, India, and South Korea.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

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Yale University
New Haven, CT

$59,950 Avg Tuition & Fees

21.1% International Students

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Yale University. The school came in at #2 in this year’s ranking. New Haven, Connecticut is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelor’s degrees to 1,431 students in 2020-2021.

Around 21.1% of the total student population at the school is international. Students studying at Yale come from such countries as China, Canada, and India.

With a student-to-faculty ratio of 4 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

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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.