2021 Best Colleges in Alabama for Students from United Arab Emirates

International students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our Best Colleges for Emirati Students in Alabama ranking - to help you make that decision.

Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Alabama to determine which ones were the best for Emirati students in Alabama. To come up with this ranking, we look at a number of factors that are all objective measurements. These factors include the school's overall quality as determined by our Best Colleges ranking and the percentage of international students on campus.

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Top Colleges in Alabama for Students from United Arab Emirates

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 Emirati students in Alabama working on their bachelor’s degree. Auburn is a large public school situated in Auburn, Alabama. It awarded 5,840 bachelor’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Around 8.1% of the total student population at the school is international. Students studying at Auburn come from such countries as China, India, and Saudi Arabia.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

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2

University of South Alabama
Mobile, AL

$17,012 Avg Tuition & Fees

1.6% International Students

The excellent bachelor’s degree programs at University of South Alabama helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best schools for Emirati students in Alabama. This fairly large public school is located in Mobile, Alabama, and it awarded 2,008 bachelor’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Around 1.6% of the total student population at the school is international. Students studying at USA come from such countries as Kuwait, India, and Saudi Arabia.

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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.