2021 Best Colleges in Kentucky 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 has developed its Best Colleges for Sri Lankan Students in Kentucky ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Kentucky to determine which ones were the best for Sri Lankan students in Kentucky. Our ranking methodology focuses a number of different objective factors - such as the overall quality of the school, number of total international students at the school, and the percentage of international students on campus - to make this determination.

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Top Colleges in Kentucky for Students from Sri Lanka

See which schools came out on top of our ranking:

1

University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY

$31,608 Avg Tuition & Fees

4.1% International Students

University of Kentucky tops this year’s ranking as the best school for Sri Lankan students in Kentucky. This large public school is located in Lexington, Kentucky, and it awarded 5,377 bachelor’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Around 4.1% of the total student population at the school is international. Students studying at UK come from such countries as China, India, and South Korea.

With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

Full University of Kentucky Report

2

University of Louisville
Louisville, KY

$28,716 Avg Tuition & Fees

2.8% International Students

A rank of #2 on our list means University of Louisville is a great place for Sri Lankan students in Kentucky working on their bachelor’s degree. Located in Louisville, Kentucky, the large public school awarded 3,083 diplomas to qualified bachelor’s degree students in 2020-2021.

International students make up 2.8% of the total student body at the school. Students studying at UofL come from such countries as India, China, and Iran.

Full University of Louisville Report

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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.