[SeekAndFind]

RE: Nearly 16 percent of the University of Illinois’ freshman class is from China.

Which makes me wonder, if China’s GDP per capita is on average MUCH LOWER than the USA, how did they manage to afford the tuition and board?

[Graewoulf]

Simple: try buying something NOT Made in China- - - .

[kabar]

Government subsidies and/or wealthy Chinese families.

[rbg81]

Which makes me wonder, if China’s GDP per capita is on average MUCH LOWER than the USA, how did they manage to afford the tuition and board?

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Remember that China has a one child policy. Many Chinese parents will use their life savings & go into debt if they can get a quality college education in the US for their kids.

[FreedomPoster]

The average Chinese is not who is coming, so averages mean little.

[flaglady47]

“Which makes me wonder, if China’s GDP per capita is on average MUCH LOWER than the USA, how did they manage to afford the tuition and board?”

China sends over their cream of the crop students, often from the rich oligarchy families, or some are subsidized by the China State. Probably some are also serving the function of spies, particularly in the Sciences. Up at UIC (Univ. of IL at Chicago) the twin sister of UIUC (Univ. of IL Champaign/Urbana) there are huge amounts of Chinese students, as the UIC campus is only about a 15 minute drive from Chinatown. I might add UIC also has a large population of Muzzie/Pali students on campus.