Title:
Number of Foreign Students in US Continues to Rise
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The number of international students at colleges and
universities in the United States has increased for
the fifth year. The Institute of International
Education in New York released its annual "Open
Doors" report in November. The report says a record
high of more than seven hundred twenty thousand
students from other countries studied in America
during the last academic year. The number was five
percent higher than the year before and almost
one-third higher than ten years ago. There were big
increases from China, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, Iran
and Venezuela. Almost twenty-two percent of
international students were Chinese, with increases
especially at the undergraduate level. Together,
almost half of all international students came from
China, India and South Korea. Peggy Blumenthal at
the institute says Chinese students are now studying
throughout the United States. Ten years ago, she
says, students from China knew about only a small
number of universities in the United States. But now
they are being admitted to community colleges,
liberal arts schools, and research universities
across the country. Ms. Blumenthal suggests one
reason for the increase is a lack of space in
Chinese colleges for everyone who wants an
education. She says students and their parents are
also looking for a different educational experience.
More international students study in California than
any other state, followed by New York, Texas,
Massachusetts and Illinois. For the tenth year in a
row, the University of Southern California in Los
Angeles led the country, with more than eighty-six
hundred foreign students. The most popular area of
study for international students is business and
management, followed by engineering. Some schools
are making special efforts to welcome students from
other cultures. Workers greet students in different
languages at a dining hall that the University of
California, Los Angeles, spent five million dollars
to modernize. Peter Angelis is an assistant vice
chancellor at UCLA. He says forty percent of the
students are Asian, and opinion surveys showed that
students wanted more Asian foods. The "Open Doors"
report says about forty-five percent of
international students in the United States are
women. Almost two-thirds of all foreign students
receive the majority of their funding from personal
and family sources.For VOA Special English, I'm
Carolyn Presutti.
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