2012 Applicant facts #1 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - SIPA Admissions Blog

2012 Applicant facts #1 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - SIPA Admissions Blog 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. Afghanistan Albania Argentina Armenia Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bahrain Bangladesh Belarus Belgium Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Brazil Bulgaria Burma Cameroon Canada Chile Colombia Costa Rica Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Democratic Republic of the Congo Denmark Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Ethiopia Finland France Georgia Germany Ghana Greece Guinea Honduras Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iran Ireland Israel Italy Jamaica Japan Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kuwait Latvia Lebanon Malawi Mexico Mongolia Morocco Mozambique Nepal The Netherlands New Zealand Niger Nigeria Norway Pakistan Paraguay Peoples Republic of China Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Romania Russia Saudi Arabia Serbia Sierra Leone Singapore Slovenia South Africa South Korea Spain Sri Lanka Sweden Switzerland Syria Taiwan Tanzania Thailand Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turkey Uganda Ukraine United Arab Emirates United Kingdom United States Uruguay Venezuela Vietnam Zambia Zimbabwe