2021 Best Colleges in Kentucky for Students from Thailand

When pursuing a degree in today's world, international students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its Best Colleges for Thai Students in Kentucky ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

After analyzing 3 schools in Kentucky, we came up with our list of those that offered the best educational experiences for Thai 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.

Get more details on our ranking methodology.

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Top Colleges in Kentucky for Students from Thailand

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

Our 2021 rankings named University of Kentucky the best school for Thai students in Kentucky working on their bachelor’s degree. UK is a public institution located in Lexington, Kentucky. The school has a large population, and it awarded 5,377 bachelor’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Around 4.1% of the total student population at the school is international. The top three countries sending students to study at UK are China, India, and South Korea.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%.

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2

Northern Kentucky University
Highland Heights, KY

$20,448 Avg Tuition & Fees

1.7% International Students

Out of the 3 schools in Kentucky that were part of this year’s ranking, Northern Kentucky University landed the #2 spot on the list. NKU is located in Highland Heights, Kentucky and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 2,289 bachelor’s degrees to qualified undergraduates.

Of the total number of students at the school, 1.7% are international. Students studying at NKU come from such countries as Saudi Arabia, India, and China.

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3

Western Kentucky University
Bowling Green, KY

$27,000 Avg Tuition & Fees

1.5% International Students

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Western Kentucky University. It ranked #3 on our 2021 Best Colleges for Thai students in Kentucky list. WKU is a public institution located in Bowling Green, Kentucky. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 3,055 bachelor’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Around 1.5% of the total student population at the school is international. Students studying at WKU come from such countries as Saudi Arabia, China, and India.

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Notes and References

Footnotes

*Avg Tuition and Fees and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top 3 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.