International students studying in Hawaii contributed more than $104.5 million to the state’s economy in tuition and living expenses in the 2014-15 academic year, an annual report by the Institute of International Education said.

Both spending and the number of foreign students enrolled in Hawaii colleges are down from the year before, according to the organization’s Open Doors report.

Some 4,035 international students studied in the islands last year, the report said, down 8 percent from the year before. In 2013-14, Hawaii had 4,388 foreign students, who spent $107.1 million.

The latest numbers rank Hawaii 39th among the 50 states and Washington, D.C., for its international enrollment count. California, New York and Texas are ranked in the top spots for most international students.

Nationally, a record 974,926 international students were studying at American colleges and universities in the 2014-15 school year — a 10 percent increase over the previous year — and contributed more than $30.5 billion to the U.S. economy. Students from India, China and Brazil accounted for most of the growth, the report said.

In Hawaii, the largest numbers of international students are from Japan (23.3 percent), South Korea (12.5 percent), China (9.3 percent), Norway (5.5 percent) and Germany (3.9 percent).

International students are an attractive population in part because they pay a higher tuition rate. At the University of Hawaii’s flagship Manoa campus, for example, the nonresident rate that foreign students are paying this year is $15,348 a semester for full-time undergraduate programs compared with $5,166 per semester for residents.

UH-Manoa had the largest number of foreign students in the state with 1,242 students enrolled last year, followed by Brigham Young University-Hawaii with 903, Hawaii Pacific University with 743, Kapiolani Community College with 724 and UH-Hilo with 171.

BYUH was No. 1 among the top 40 baccalaureate colleges nationwide attracting the most foreign students. Kapiolani Community College ranked 30th among community colleges nationally. No Hawaii schools made the lists of doctorate-granting or master’s universities with the highest international student populations.