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

We analyzed 2 colleges and universities across Tennessee to determine which were the best for Sri Lankan students in Tennessee. 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 Tennessee for Students from Sri Lanka

See which schools came out on top of our ranking:

1

The University of Tennessee - Knoxville
Knoxville, TN

$31,664 Avg Tuition & Fees

3.1% International Students

Our 2021 rankings named The University of Tennessee - Knoxville the best school for Sri Lankan students in Tennessee working on their bachelor’s degree. UT Knoxville is located in Knoxville, Tennessee and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 5,356 bachelor’s degrees to qualified undergraduates.

Of the total number of students at the school, 3.1% are international. The top three countries sending students to study at UT Knoxville are China, India, and Saudi Arabia.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 89%.

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2

Tennessee Technological University
Cookeville, TN

$19,834 Avg Tuition & Fees

2.5% International Students

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Tennessee Technological University. The school came in at #2 in this year’s ranking. Cookeville, Tennessee is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelor’s degrees to 1,905 students in 2020-2021.

Around 2.5% of the total student population at the school is international. Students studying at Tennessee Tech University come from such countries as Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and India.

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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.