2021 Best Colleges in Utah for Students from Sri Lanka

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 Sri Lankan Students in Utah ranking is part of that endeavor.

After analyzing 2 schools in Utah, we came up with our list of those that offered the best educational experiences for Sri Lankan students in Utah. 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 Utah for Students from Sri Lanka

See which schools came out on top of our ranking:

1

University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT

$28,345 Avg Tuition & Fees

7.2% International Students

Our analysis found University of Utah to be the best school for Sri Lankan students in Utah in this year’s ranking. Located in Salt Lake City, Utah, the large public school awarded 5,437 diplomas to qualified bachelor’s degree students in 2020-2021.

Of the total number of students at the school, 7.2% are international. Students studying at U of U come from such countries as China, India, and South Korea.

With a freshman retention rate of 89%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

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2

Brigham Young University - Provo
Provo, UT

$6,120 Avg Tuition & Fees

3.5% International Students

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Brigham Young University - Provo. The school came in at #2 in this year’s ranking. BYU is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Provo, Utah. It awarded 6,871 bachelor’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Around 3.5% of the total student population at the school is international. Students from as far away as Canada, South Korea, and China come to BYU to study.

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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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.