Many universities in the U.S. are saying--Thank you India and China!! For eight years, India is our leading country for international students. This year alone, 103,260 students from India are attending American universities. China happens to be rapidly catching up by sending 98,510 students.
Peggy Blumenthal, executive vice president of the Institute of International Education, says, "I think we're going to be seeing 100,000 students from each for years to come, with an increasing share of them undergraduates." During the 2008-2009 academic year, the United States saw the largest percentage increase in ALL international students by 8% in more than 25 years. During that year alone there were 671,616 international students nation wide.
How can this help our economy? Our recession? Apparently, the influx of international students entering our universities has been extremely important in more ways than one. "International students shop at the local Wal-Mart, rent rooms and buy food. Foreign students bring $17.8 billion to this country. A lot of campuses this year are increasing their international recruitment, trying to keep their programs whole by recruiting international students to fill their spaces," said Allan E. Goodman, president of an institute.
Within the past five years, China's undergraduate numbers and graduate numbers have gone up by 5000 students. Not only are these students science majors, but many are branching out into liberal arts education.
Currently, many large public universities are devoting their time and resources to build up their share of international undergraduates. Mitch Leventhal, vice chancellor for global affairs, expects to increase undergraduate recruiting, particularly from India and China. With the lack of good universities in China, studying in the United States is crucial and beneficial. Therefore, many wealthy Chinese parents opt to send their child(ren) to an American university.
With any luck, many other countries within the Middle East will choose to start their education or continue their education at a university in the United States.
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Hello Denise-
ReplyDeleteI read that Vietnam is increasing the number of students they send to the US also. It seems like these countries middle class is growing and they want their children to succeed. I think it shows that the colleges in the US are strong so taht is good. The fact that our economy is down also makes this very appealing to colleges. I don't understand how they recruit them but I am glad they do.