2021 Best Colleges in Alabama for Students from Sri Lanka

When it comes to choosing a college, international students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Alabama ranking is part of that endeavor.

Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Alabama to determine which ones were the best for Sri Lankan students in Alabama. 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 Alabama for Students from Sri Lanka

See which schools came out on top of our ranking:

1

Auburn University
Auburn, AL

$31,986 Avg Tuition & Fees

8.1% International Students

Our 2021 rankings named Auburn University the best school for Sri Lankan students in Alabama working on their bachelor’s degree. This large public school is located in Auburn, Alabama, and it awarded 5,840 bachelor’s degrees in 2020-2021.

International students make up 8.1% of the total student body at the school. The top three countries sending students to study at Auburn are China, India, and Saudi Arabia.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%.

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2

The University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, AL

$31,090 Avg Tuition & Fees

3.1% International Students

The excellent bachelor’s degree programs at The University of Alabama helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best schools for Sri Lankan students in Alabama. UA is a large public school situated in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. It awarded 8,062 bachelor’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Around 3.1% of the total student population at the school is international. Students from as far away as China, Saudi Arabia, and India come to UA to study.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, 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.