2021 Best Affordable Colleges in Kentucky for Students from Hong Kong

When pursuing a degree in today's world, international students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our Best Value Colleges for Hong Kongese Students in Kentucky ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Kentucky to determine which ones were the best for Hong Kongese students in Kentucky. Instead of depending on subjective information, we focus on objective factors to determine this ranking. These factors include such things as the total number of international students at the school and the school's overall value.

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Top Value Colleges in Kentucky for Students from Hong Kong

See which schools came out on top of our ranking:

1

Western Kentucky University
Bowling Green, KY

$27,000 Avg Undergrad Tuition & Fees

1.5% International Students

Our analysis found Western Kentucky University to be the best affordable school for Hong Kongese students in Kentucky in this year’s ranking. WKU is located in Bowling Green, Kentucky and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 3,055 bachelor’s degrees to qualified undergraduates.

International students make up 1.5% of the total student body at the school. Students from as far away as Saudi Arabia, China, and India come to WKU to study. Out-of-state tuition and fees for undergraduates at WKU is about $27,000 a year, on average. Graduate students pay around $18,340 a year in average tuition and fees.

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2

University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY

$31,608 Avg Undergrad Tuition & Fees

4.1% International Students

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Kentucky. It ranked #2 on our 2021 Best Colleges for Hong Kongese students in Kentucky list. University of Kentucky is a large public school located in Lexington, Kentucky that handed out 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. Out-of-state tuition and fees for undergraduates at UK is about $31,608 a year, on average. Graduate students pay around $33,548 a year in average tuition and fees.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, 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.