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Connecticut
Connecticut has 22 degree-granting institutions in this data. Between them they award 2,347 research doctorates and 16,198 master’s degrees over the window, and take $1.11bn in federal research and development money.
This page counts every institution in the state, including the ones that award no graduate degree at all. Leaving those out would make a state look like its flagship.
institutions in the state
11 award a research doctorate. 1 enrol no graduate students at all.
of research doctorates go to non-residents
1,005 of 2,347. National figure: 38.9%.
of graduate enrolment is non-resident
11,932 of 42,834 graduate students.
federal research and development money
Across 17 institutions. $922.4m in total federal obligations.
Where Connecticut sits
The non-resident share of research doctorates, against the same figure for the country. That is 3.9 points above the national figure of 38.9%.
Connecticut ranks 16 of 52 states on that share, and 24 of 56 on the number of research doctorates it awards. Rank 1 is the highest. Only states that award doctorates are ranked.
Undergraduate and graduate, side by side
The same institutions at two levels. Undergraduate is the remainder once graduate enrolment is taken out of the total, and both levels carry their own non-resident count. In Connecticut the graduate share is 24.3 points higher than the undergraduate share.
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| Institution | Undergraduates | Non-res | Share | Graduates | Non-res | Share | State funding | Federal R&D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Connecticut | 19,388 | 1,584 | 8.2% | 7,976 | 1,818 | 22.8% | $407.8m | $433.5m |
| Post University | 19,575 | 8 | 0.0% | 2,124 | 0 | 0.0% | — | — |
| Yale University | 6,818 | 724 | 10.6% | 8,263 | 2,840 | 34.4% | — | $1.52bn |
| Sacred Heart University | 6,960 | 75 | 1.1% | 4,219 | 1,896 | 44.9% | — | $5.7m |
| University of New Haven | 4,865 | 166 | 3.4% | 4,965 | 3,516 | 70.8% | — | $5.6m |
| Central Connecticut State University | 7,917 | 150 | 1.9% | 1,795 | 33 | 1.8% | $60.0m | — |
| Quinnipiac University | 6,248 | 115 | 1.8% | 2,670 | 51 | 1.9% | — | — |
| Southern Connecticut State University | 6,781 | 42 | 0.6% | 2,039 | 23 | 1.1% | $58.2m | $7.6m |
| Fairfield University | 4,968 | 99 | 2.0% | 1,321 | 50 | 3.8% | — | $5.8m |
| University of Hartford | 4,131 | 144 | 3.5% | 1,782 | 193 | 10.8% | — | $1.9m |
| Western Connecticut State University | 3,542 | 10 | 0.3% | 595 | 5 | 0.8% | $38.9m | — |
| University of Bridgeport | 1,479 | 61 | 4.1% | 2,624 | 1,403 | 53.5% | — | — |
| Eastern Connecticut State University | 3,839 | 13 | 0.3% | 140 | 2 | 1.4% | $36.3m | $1.4m |
| Wesleyan University | 3,066 | 313 | 10.2% | 205 | 57 | 27.8% | — | $10.8m |
| Goodwin University | 2,911 | 12 | 0.4% | 123 | 0 | 0.0% | — | — |
| Trinity College | 2,237 | 302 | 13.5% | 39 | 1 | 2.6% | — | — |
| Connecticut College | 1,995 | 119 | 6.0% | — | — | — | — | $1.1m |
| University of Saint Joseph | 879 | 14 | 1.6% | 1,060 | 10 | 0.9% | — | — |
| Charter Oak State College | 1,683 | 6 | 0.4% | 83 | 0 | 0.0% | $4.8m | — |
| Albertus Magnus College | 892 | 37 | 4.1% | 269 | 5 | 1.9% | — | — |
| Holy Apostles College and Seminary | 270 | 12 | 4.4% | 439 | 24 | 5.5% | — | — |
| Hartford International University for Religion and Peace | 0 | 0 | — | 103 | 5 | 4.9% | — | $1.6m |
The two levels diverge most at University of New Haven: 3.4% of its 4,865 undergraduates and 70.8% of its 4,965 graduate students. These are different admissions systems with different applicant pools, different money and different reasons to say yes, and a single state figure hides both.
4,006 of 110,444 undergraduates and 11,932 of 42,834 graduate students. IPEDS reports no graduate enrolment for 1 of these institutions; their rows show a dash rather than a zero, because the file not carrying a number is not the same as the number being none.
What the state figure is an average of
The largest graduate enrolments in Connecticut, each with its own non-resident share. Nothing here is excluded from the figures above. The point is to show what they are made of.
| Institution | Graduate students | Share of the state | Non-resident |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yale University | 8,263 | 19.3% | 34.4% |
| University of Connecticut | 7,976 | 18.6% | 22.8% |
| University of New Haven | 4,965 | 11.6% | 70.8% |
| Sacred Heart University | 4,219 | 9.8% | 44.9% |
| Quinnipiac University | 2,670 | 6.2% | 1.9% |
| University of Bridgeport | 2,624 | 6.1% | 53.5% |
No single institution decides this figure. The largest, Yale University, holds 19.3% of the state’s graduate enrolment, and removing it moves the state share from 27.9% to 26.3%.
Practical training, and the other student visas
A student visa does not end at graduation. Optional Practical Training lets a graduate work on the same visa, and a STEM degree adds a further twenty-four months. It applies at both levels — a foreign undergraduate can take OPT as readily as a doctoral graduate — which is why the undergraduate share above is not the end of the story.
| Institution | OPT authorisations | National rank | STEM OPT authorisations | National rank | Students employed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yale University | 684 | 65 | 320 | 60 | 1,106 |
Do not add these two columns together. A graduate who holds post-completion OPT and then a STEM extension in the same year appears in both, and the sum counts that person twice. They are authorisations, not people. Figures are for 2024, from SEVP’s top-100 and top-200 school lists — an institution outside those lists has no published figure, which is a fact about the list and never a zero.
J-1 physicians. Connecticut hosted 448 J-1 physicians in graduate medical education in 2025. That list is published for the top twelve states only, so a state missing from it has no published figure.
In-state against out-of-state
Public four-year institutions, FY2024. Every foreign student pays the out-of-state rate, so this is the price attached to the non-resident column everywhere else on this page.
An out-of-state student in Connecticut is worth 0.44× an in-state one to the institution. They are 45.6% of the students and 26.1% of the tuition revenue.
| Measure | In-state | Out-of-state |
|---|---|---|
| Share of students (FTE) | 54.4% | 45.6% |
| Net tuition and fees collected per student | $20,323 | $9,008 |
| Share of tuition revenue | 70.0% | 26.1% |
Out-of-state is not the same as foreign. SHEEO counts international students and domestic students from other states in one column. This shows what a non-resident pays, never how many of them are foreign. Figures are net tuition and fee revenue per full-time-equivalent student — what the institution actually collected after its own aid, not the published price. Public four-year institutions only; medical FTE excluded. SHEEO records that Connecticut estimated part of this breakout for this year.
Every institution
Largest first by total enrolment. A dash means the institution awards none of that degree, or that no federal research money was matched to it.
| Institution | City | Control | Enrolled | Graduate | Master’s | Non-res | Doctorates | Non-res | Federal R&D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Connecticut | Storrs | public | 27,364 | 7,976 | 2,512 | 1,037 | 1,687 | 754 | $433.5m |
| Post University | Waterbury | private for-profit | 21,699 | 2,124 | 1 | 0 | — | — | — |
| Yale University | New Haven | private nonprofit | 15,081 | 8,263 | 3,523 | 1,641 | 2,270 | 834 | $1.52bn |
| Sacred Heart University | Fairfield | private nonprofit | 11,179 | 4,219 | 1,759 | 1,366 | 59 | 1 | $5.7m |
| University of New Haven | West Haven | private nonprofit | 9,830 | 4,965 | 3,601 | 2,919 | 14 | 3 | $5.6m |
| Central Connecticut State University | New Britain | public | 9,712 | 1,795 | 364 | 32 | 133 | 1 | — |
| Quinnipiac University | Hamden | private nonprofit | 8,918 | 2,670 | 559 | 35 | — | — | — |
| Southern Connecticut State University | New Haven | public | 8,820 | 2,039 | 293 | 6 | 116 | 1 | $7.6m |
| Fairfield University | Fairfield | private nonprofit | 6,289 | 1,321 | 522 | 104 | 14 | 0 | $5.8m |
| University of Hartford | West Hartford | private nonprofit | 5,913 | 1,782 | 642 | 55 | 115 | 26 | $1.9m |
| Western Connecticut State University | Danbury | public | 4,137 | 595 | 367 | 4 | — | — | — |
| University of Bridgeport | Bridgeport | private nonprofit | 4,103 | 2,624 | 1,357 | 1,291 | 109 | 11 | — |
| Eastern Connecticut State University | Willimantic | public | 3,979 | 140 | — | — | — | — | $1.4m |
| Wesleyan University | Middletown | private nonprofit | 3,271 | 205 | 157 | 22 | 50 | 17 | $10.8m |
| Goodwin University | East Hartford | private nonprofit | 3,034 | 123 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Trinity College | Hartford | private nonprofit | 2,276 | 39 | 1 | 0 | — | — | — |
| Connecticut College | New London | private nonprofit | 1,995 | — | — | — | — | — | $1.1m |
| University of Saint Joseph | West Hartford | private nonprofit | 1,939 | 1,060 | 507 | 6 | — | — | — |
| Charter Oak State College | New Britain | public | 1,766 | 83 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Albertus Magnus College | New Haven | private nonprofit | 1,161 | 269 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Holy Apostles College and Seminary | Cromwell | private nonprofit | 709 | 439 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Hartford International University for Religion and Peace | Hartford | private nonprofit | 103 | 103 | 33 | 27 | 4 | 2 | $1.6m |
Degrees are pooled over 2021–2025. Enrolment and federal money are the most recent year in the file. “Non-res” means a student here on a temporary visa, almost always F-1 or J-1. A green card holder is not counted in it.
How few institutions this is
Of the 22 institutions in Connecticut, 11 award a research doctorate at all, and the largest two award 86.6% of them. A state’s graduate pipeline is a much smaller thing than its list of colleges.
| Institution | Research doctorates | Non-resident | Share | Share of the state’s doctorates |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yale University | 2,270 | 834 | 36.7% | 49.7% |
| University of Connecticut | 1,687 | 754 | 44.7% | 36.9% |
| Central Connecticut State University | 133 | 1 | 0.8% | 2.9% |
| Southern Connecticut State University | 116 | 1 | 0.9% | 2.5% |
| University of Hartford | 115 | 26 | 22.6% | 2.5% |
| University of Bridgeport | 109 | 11 | 10.1% | 2.4% |
| Sacred Heart University | 59 | 1 | 1.7% | 1.3% |
| Wesleyan University | 50 | 17 | 34.0% | 1.1% |
| University of New Haven | 14 | 3 | 21.4% | 0.3% |
| Fairfield University | 14 | 0 | 0.0% | 0.3% |
| Hartford International University for Religion and Peace | 4 | 2 | 50.0% | 0.1% |
The foreign share of graduate students, where the survey reaches
The NSF Survey of Graduate Students and Postdoctorates asks institutions directly, and it covers 14 of the 22 institutions in Connecticut. It is a different measure from the degree counts above: enrolled students rather than degrees awarded.
| Institution | Doctoral students foreign | Master’s students foreign |
|---|---|---|
| University of New Haven | 75.0% | 84.5% |
| University of Connecticut | 50.9% | 23.1% |
| Wesleyan University | 49.3% | 2.9% |
| Yale University | 43.1% | 78.2% |
| University of Bridgeport | 39.1% | 91.5% |
| Sacred Heart University | —% | 52.0% |
| Central Connecticut State University | —% | 12.7% |
| Quinnipiac University | —% | 34.6% |
| Southern Connecticut State University | —% | 3.0% |
| Fairfield University | —% | 43.8% |
| University of Hartford | —% | 25.7% |
| Western Connecticut State University | —% | 0.0% |
| Trinity College | —% | 50.0% |
| University of Saint Joseph | —% | 1.6% |
University of New Haven
The highest foreign share of doctoral students in the state, at 75.0%. It is not the largest institution here and it is not the one with the most federal money. Size and share are different questions, and a state page that ranked only by size would not show this.
What the state itself puts in
State appropriations per full-time-equivalent student, from the SHEEO finance survey, against the change in the foreign share of graduate enrolment over the same window.
| Measure | First year | Last year | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| State appropriations per FTE student | $18,943 | $23,032 | +21.6% |
| Foreign share of graduate enrolment | 9.3% | 14.9% | +5.6 pts |
These two rows move for their own reasons. Nothing here shows that one caused the other, and the page does not say it did.
Department by department
The dissertation corpus reaches 2 institutions in this state, covering 53 departments. 18 of them are majority non-resident.
| Institution | Department | Doctorates | Non-resident | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UConn | Statistics, General | 70 | 60 | 85.7% |
| UConn | Computer Engineering, General | 98 | 77 | 78.6% |
| UConn | Electrical and Electronics Engineering | 105 | 80 | 76.2% |
| UConn | Environmental/Environmental Health Engineering | 33 | 25 | 75.8% |
| UConn | Mechanical Engineering | 80 | 56 | 70.0% |
| UConn | Chemical Engineering | 59 | 38 | 64.4% |
| UConn | Chemistry, General | 165 | 102 | 61.8% |
| UConn | Polymer Chemistry | 28 | 17 | 60.7% |
| UConn | Materials Engineering | 96 | 58 | 60.4% |
| UConn | Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering | 64 | 38 | 59.4% |
| UConn | Civil Engineering, General | 44 | 24 | 54.5% |
| UConn | Nutrition Sciences | 31 | 16 | 51.6% |
| UConn | Mathematics, General | 72 | 36 | 50.0% |
| UConn | Physics, General | 75 | 34 | 45.3% |
| UConn | Cognitive Psychology and Psycholinguistics | 20 | 9 | 45.0% |
| UConn | Biomedical Sciences, General | 153 | 58 | 37.9% |
| UConn | Physiology, General | 35 | 13 | 37.1% |
| UConn | Pathology/Experimental Pathology | 17 | 5 | 29.4% |
| UConn | Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology | 69 | 17 | 24.6% |
| UConn | Social Psychology | 25 | 6 | 24.0% |
| UConn | Oceanography, Chemical and Physical | 27 | 6 | 22.2% |
| UConn | Ecology | 50 | 10 | 20.0% |
| UConn | Psychometrics and Quantitative Psychology | 23 | 2 | 8.7% |
| UConn | Educational Psychology | 47 | 2 | 4.3% |
| UConn | Personality Psychology | 61 | 2 | 3.3% |
| Yale | Electrical and Electronics Engineering | 51 | 40 | 78.4% |
| Yale | Statistics, General | 26 | 19 | 73.1% |
| Yale | Mechanical Engineering | 47 | 30 | 63.8% |
| Yale | Computer and Information Sciences, General | 50 | 31 | 62.0% |
| Yale | Geology/Earth Science, General | 71 | 40 | 56.3% |
| Yale | Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology, Other | 40 | 22 | 55.0% |
| Yale | Chemical Engineering | 22 | 11 | 50.0% |
| Yale | Mathematics, General | 43 | 21 | 48.8% |
| Yale | Engineering Physics/Applied Physics | 36 | 16 | 44.4% |
| Yale | Physics, General | 143 | 59 | 41.3% |
| Yale | Physiology, General | 31 | 11 | 35.5% |
| Yale | Cell/Cellular Biology and Histology | 88 | 29 | 33.0% |
| Yale | Environmental/Environmental Health Engineering | 64 | 21 | 32.8% |
| Yale | Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering | 80 | 26 | 32.5% |
| Yale | Immunology | 82 | 25 | 30.5% |
| Yale | Chemistry, General | 214 | 62 | 29.0% |
| Yale | Astronomy | 21 | 5 | 23.8% |
| Yale | Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology | 69 | 15 | 21.7% |
| Yale | Genetics, General | 92 | 20 | 21.7% |
| Yale | Neuroscience | 97 | 20 | 20.6% |
| Yale | Medical Microbiology and Bacteriology | 26 | 5 | 19.2% |
| Yale | Medieval and Renaissance Studies | 16 | 3 | 18.8% |
| Yale | Psychology, General | 49 | 9 | 18.4% |
| Yale | Evolutionary Biology | 38 | 6 | 15.8% |
| Yale | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | 103 | 13 | 12.6% |
| Yale | Pathology/Experimental Pathology | 23 | 2 | 8.7% |
| Yale | Pharmacology | 35 | 3 | 8.6% |
| Yale | Experimental Psychology | 51 | 4 | 7.8% |
From the dissertation corpus, which is built from what universities publish about their own graduates. It covers the institutions on this site, not every institution in the state, so it is a floor.
What is not published for a state this size
Two of the measures this site uses elsewhere do not exist at this scale, and the reason is the same in both cases: the agency publishes a ranked extract rather than the whole file.
- Practical training is not published here. SEVP releases the top 100 and top 200 schools for OPT and STEM OPT, not every school. An institution outside those lists has no published figure at all. Its absence is a fact about the list, not about the institution, and it must never be read as a zero.
- Student visa counts are not published by state. DHS reports SEVIS records nationally and names a few states per region in its commentary. For most states it publishes a percentage change and no count, so the number of foreign students physically in a state cannot be read off the federal release.
- Enrolment is the measure that does exist. IPEDS asks every institution directly, which is why this page is built from it. It counts students enrolled, not visas issued, and the two are different questions.
Method and limits
- Non-resident means here on a temporary visa. IPEDS defines it as a person “who is not a citizen or national of the United States and who is in this country on a visa or temporary basis and does not have the right to remain indefinitely.” A green card holder is therefore never counted here. Neither is a refugee or an asylee. Those students are reported in the race and ethnicity categories alongside citizens. For students the category is overwhelmingly F-1 and J-1.
- It is not ethnicity and not country of origin. A US-born citizen of any background is never non-resident. The status is recorded when the student enrols, for the enrolment figures, and when the degree is awarded, for the degree counts. These files cannot be split any other way.
- Degrees are pooled over 2021–2025, because a single year at a small institution moves on one student.
- Enrolment and awards are different measures and will not agree. One counts people on a given day; the other counts degrees conferred over five years.
- Federal money is matched to a campus, and a system that reports centrally can carry money its branches spend.
- This page shows composition, not displacement. It records who received the degrees. It does not show that anyone was kept out, and nothing here should be read that way.
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