Kyla Calvert — Number of international students on U.S. campuses at an all time high

Overall international students were 4.2 percent of those enrolled in the country’s post secondary institutions, a higher portion than ever before. 

While the number of internationals students coming to the U.S. has increased in most of the last dozen years, that growth picked up during the recession. Schools like the University of California’s campuses looked to other countries for students who pay the full sticker price to attend.…

All three countries [Brazil, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia] offer national scholarships for students who want to study abroad, according to IIE.

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Number of international students on U.S. campuses at an all time high

Kyla Calvert

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There were 274,439 students from China enrolled at US universities in 2013-2014. The country is still responsible for sending the most students to the US, largely because the demand for higher education is greater than the number of seats available in quality institutions in China.…

For the last school year, India accounted for 11.6% of all international students in the US, with 102,673 students. This is the first overall increase of Indian students in the last few years, which is likely attributable to a few factors, Bhandari says. Firstly, there is a growing college- and- graduate-aged population in India, and like China, India does not have the educational infrastructure to provide quality, graduate-level education to every student who wants it; the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology have an acceptance rate of less than 2%.…

There are many connections between education in Iran and the US—Iran puts a premium on postgraduate education, and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has more US-educated PhD’s in his cabinet than US President Barack Obama does.

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