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International students have returned to US colleges, fueled by a surge from India
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Posted on 11/13/2023 3:39:33 PM PST by FarCenter

WASHINGTON (AP) — International students attended U.S. universities in surging numbers last year, rebounding from a pandemic slump with the help of a 35% jump in students coming from India, according to a study released Monday.

Overall, the number of international students in the U.S. grew by 12% in the 2022-23 academic year, the largest single-year increase in more than 40 years, according to findings from the State Department and the nonprofit Institute of International Education. More than 1 million students came from abroad, the most since the 2019-20 school year.

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American colleges enrolled nearly 269,000 students from India, more than ever and second only to China. Most came for graduate programs, often in science, technology and business.

“The U.S. maintains a strong relationship with India on education, which I think is getting even stronger and even more connected,” said Marianne Craven, the State Department’s acting deputy assistant secretary for academic exchange.

China still accounted for the most foreign students in the U.S. with 290,000, but its numbers decreased for a third consecutive year.

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At the same time, U.S. universities have focused on recruiting in India, hoping to tap a growing population that the United Nations predicted would overtake China as the world’s largest this year. Students from India now outnumber those from China in 24 U.S. states, including Illinois, Texas and Michigan, which rank among the top destinations for international students.

... Graduate enrollment grew by 21%, while undergraduate numbers ticked 1%. ...

Much of last year’s growth is credited to math and computer science programs, which attracted more students than any other subject and saw a 20% boost in enrollment over the previous year. Engineering and business followed behind. Taken together, those three fields account for more than half of all international students in the US.

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1 posted on 11/13/2023 3:39:33 PM PST by FarCenter
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To: FarCenter

And all STEM, business, medicene or something else practical and useful. I bet not a single one of them will major in Trangender studies and have a minor in Fisting.


2 posted on 11/13/2023 3:51:02 PM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: FarCenter

the great replacement continues full speed ahead


3 posted on 11/13/2023 3:53:26 PM PST by imabadboy99
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To: FarCenter

Send them home. Reserve those seats for Americans!!!


4 posted on 11/13/2023 3:56:40 PM PST by Reno89519 (It's war. No one murders and takes Americans hostage. Time to act. Declare war on Islamic Hamas.)
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To: Reno89519

A lot of these students are paying full tuition, funded by their families or home governments.

Where are you going to find another million American students able to pay full freight?


5 posted on 11/13/2023 4:04:41 PM PST by FarCenter
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To: FarCenter

i dngaf. Start cutting adminstrators and leftists professors. These foreigners are funding the communists in our universities.


6 posted on 11/13/2023 4:06:41 PM PST by imabadboy99
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To: FarCenter

Thieves, spammers, phishers and hackers. They are loaded with diversity andd they’ll have you money in a heatbeat.


7 posted on 11/13/2023 4:07:22 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer ('Build Back Better' is a Bidenskyyyyyyism for 'we gotta get rid of all dem white peoples'.)
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To: FarCenter

You won’t.

Which means colleges won’t have funding for 32 different Deputy Assistant directors of HateWipepl
at $240,000/year each.
And that tuition will have to come down.

And those are both good for America.


8 posted on 11/13/2023 4:10:35 PM PST by grey_whiskers ( The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: All

Should be zero


9 posted on 11/13/2023 4:18:32 PM PST by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: FarCenter

The Indians have just about taken over technical recruiting here. And they don’t hire Americans.


10 posted on 11/13/2023 4:27:15 PM PST by jroehl (And how we burned in the camps later - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago)
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To: FarCenter

Universities love them because they pay full freight.


11 posted on 11/13/2023 4:28:22 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: FarCenter

Well at least our college Cricket team should be pretty good.


12 posted on 11/13/2023 4:29:49 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: FarCenter

Why do we teach foreigners?

Oh yea...$$$

Great...


13 posted on 11/13/2023 4:38:45 PM PST by mowowie
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To: FarCenter

Well, then the government should withdraw federal funding for the schools if they want to take the richer foreign students


14 posted on 11/13/2023 4:40:24 PM PST by Reno89519 (It's war. No one murders and takes Americans hostage. Time to act. Declare war on Islamic Hamas.)
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To: jroehl

Once they take over an HR they only hire their own. And contrary to popular belief, the vast majority are lazy and useless.


15 posted on 11/13/2023 4:47:50 PM PST by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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To: FarCenter

Hindus are a cancer on America.


16 posted on 11/13/2023 4:49:44 PM PST by Clemenza
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To: FarCenter

Math and computer science are most popular classes. Interesting.


17 posted on 11/13/2023 8:47:23 PM PST by NetAddicted (MAGA2024)
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To: jroehl

The jobs are gone. So are the Desi recruiters.


18 posted on 11/13/2023 9:03:24 PM PST by bobcat62
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To: FarCenter

But are they Hindu, or muslim?


19 posted on 11/14/2023 8:57:11 AM PST by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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