China Surges Past India as Top Home of Foreign Students
For those of you on the far right who would drag us backwards: Change has been happening, is happening now, and will continue to happen no matter how much you hate & fear it.
If you truly care about your country’s future as much as you claim to, then pull your head out of the sand and try to do something useful that’s at least marginally connected to the reality sitting right outside your front door.
The report found that a record high of 690,923 international students came to the United States last year — nearly 128,000 of them, or more than 18 percent, from China. Over all, the number of international students at colleges and universities in the United States increased 3 percent for the 2009-10 academic year.
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“The number of students from China is booming, because of that booming Chinese economy,” said Peggy Blumenthal, executive vice president of the institute. “But India, which also has a booming economy, is only up 1.6 percent. I think one factor is the great number of Chinese families with disposable income, two working parents and only one child, and a determination to invest their money to make sure that child receives the best education possible.”
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The report also tracks Americans studying abroad, although those numbers come from a year earlier. In the 2008-9 academic year, 260,327 American students studied abroad, down slightly from 262,416 the previous year.
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