2012 Applicant facts #1

SIPA’s diverse student body is one of its greatest attributes. Each year we receive applications from nearly 100 different countries from applicants with varied academic and professional backgrounds.

As you await your decisions, we thought it would be fun to post a few entries based on factoids about this year’s applicant pool.

This first post has some information on the citizenship of the Fall 2012 applicants. Columbia and SIPA, in particular, has one of the most international student bodies in the world. Columbia University ranks third in the United States in terms of international student enrollment and SIPA commonly enrolls students from more than 100 countries per year.

This year applicants for our two-year programs hail from 98 different countries.  This figure, however, does not include U.S. Permanent Residents.  Many Permanent Residents represent countries not reflected in the 103 countries below.