Pace University

Pace runs two undergraduate campuses — One Pace Plaza in Lower Manhattan and a Westchester campus in Pleasantville — and the choice matters because tuition is identical but housing is not, and the TOEFL and SAT reporting codes differ between them. The academic centre of gravity is unusual: business is the largest field of bachelor's degrees at 20%, but visual and performing arts is second at 17%, driven by the Sands College of Performing Arts, and health professions third at 16%. For a Kazakh applicant the important structural fact is that Pace publishes three separate entry routes — Direct for students who already meet the English bar, Global Pathways for those who need language preparation alongside credit-bearing study, and the English Language Institute for intensive preparation first — so falling short on English redirects rather than rejects. Pace also states a plain merit range for international students, roughly USD 10,000 to USD 30,000 a year, awarded automatically at the point of admission with no separate application. Early Decision is offered but admitted only 58 of 198 applicants, a materially harder round than the 76% overall rate.