<p>“actually Purdue and Illinois have the largest international student populations in the US I believe”</p>
<p>Actually Pierre, it generally varies from year to year, but UIUC and Purdue do well in terms of international enrollment. However, USC, Michigan, Texas, NYU and Columbia do just as well.</p>
<p>Below are the latest figures published by the universities themselves:</p>
<p>University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign: 5,495
<a href=“http://www.dmi.illinois.edu/stuenr/country/countrysp09.xls[/url]”>http://www.dmi.illinois.edu/stuenr/country/countrysp09.xls</a></p>
<p>Purdue University-West Lafayette: 4,994
[Application</a> Dispatcher](<a href=“http://1061vweb15.itap.purdue.edu/cgi-bin/broker.exe]Application”>http://1061vweb15.itap.purdue.edu/cgi-bin/broker.exe)</p>
<p>University of Michigan-Ann Arbor: 4,990
<a href=“Office of Budget and Planning”>Office of Budget and Planning;
<p>I could not find official data on the other schools, but USC generally leads the nation in international enrollments.</p>