Record Number of International Students in the United States


Today’s edition of USA Today contains a story on the new count of international students studying in the United States.  You may find the story HERE and the original source of the findings HERE.  Last year, I wrote about the record number of students studying in this country.  We now have a new record. 

Consider the following:

  • There has been a 6% increase among international students in the 2011-12 academic year.
  • The number of international students has now reached 764,495.
  • Much of this growth comes from increases in the number of Chinese students studying at the undergraduate level.
  • The total enrollment of Chinese students increased by 23%, with those at the undergraduate level by 31%.
  • A 50% increase occurred in the number of students from Saudi Arabia.
  • California hosted more than 100,000 international students for the first time this year.
  • Pennsylvania, Florida, and Indiana had the largest percent increases in such students.
  • The following are the schools with the greatest number of international students: University of Southern California (largest number), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, New York University, Purdue University, and Columbia University.
  • New York continues to be the top metro area for students.

Check out the leading places of origin of international students studying in the United States: HERE.

Once again, we are reminded that the peoples of the world are on the move.

They are the students in our communities.

To most of us. . . they remain the strangers next door.

 

Here are some of my previous posts on college students:

International Students: Removing the Tradition of Geography

Students and Global Evangelization

Diaspora Missiology Series: Students

 

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