2021 Best 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. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our Best Colleges for Hong Kongese Students in Kentucky ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 quality.

Find out more about our ranking methodology.

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Top Colleges in Kentucky for Students from Hong Kong

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 analysis found University of Kentucky to be the best school for Hong Kongese students in Kentucky in this year’s ranking. This large public school is located in Lexington, Kentucky, and it awarded 5,377 bachelor’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Of the total number of students at the school, 4.1% are international. Students from as far away as China, India, and South Korea come to UK to study.

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

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2

Western Kentucky University
Bowling Green, KY

$27,000 Avg Tuition & Fees

1.5% International Students

The excellent bachelor’s degree programs at Western Kentucky University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best schools for Hong Kongese students in Kentucky. Bowling Green, Kentucky is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelor’s degrees to 3,055 students in 2020-2021.

Of the total number of students at the school, 1.5% are international. Students from as far away as Saudi Arabia, China, and India come to WKU to study.

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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.