Posted on 11/15/2005 4:20:38 AM PST by CarrotAndStick
NEW DELHI, NOV 14: India sent the highest number of students to the US for the fourth year in a row. At 80,466 students in 2004-05, it was a 1% increase over the previous year’s enrolment. Open Doors 2005, the annual report on international academic mobility published by the Institute of International Education (IIE) with support from the US Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, said China followed India having sent 62,523 students, a 1% increase in enrolment, after experiencing a decline of 5% the previous year.
The Republic of Korea, which remained the third leading sender for the fourth year in a row, sent 2% more students at 53,358. Japan, the fourth leading sender with 42,215 students, experienced an increase in enrollment of 3%, reversing a trend in declining enrollments that began three years ago.
Enrolments of students from Canada, the only non-Asian country in the top five, increased by 4% to 28,140. These five countries account for almost half (47%) of all international students in the US.
In 2004/05, the number of international students enrolled in U.S. higher education institutions remained fairly steady at 565,039, off about 1% from the previous year’s totals. This marked the sixth year in a row that US hosted more than half a million foreign students. This year’s numbers indicate a leveling off of enrolments, after last year’s decline of 2.4%.
Some campuses reported significant increases in enrolments while other campuses reported declines. Asia continued to be the largest sending region by a wide margin, and showed a slight increase in enrolments.
The slight overall decline in international students enrolled in U.S. colleges and universities has been attributed to several factors, including real and perceived difficulties in obtaining student visas (especially in scientific and technical fields), rising U.S. tuition costs, vigorous recruitment activities by other English-speaking nations, and perceptions abroad that it is more difficult for international students to go to the US.
I've had to report to 3 during my 15 years in chip design.
One got fired, the other got demoted 2 levels and the third no one wants to work for.
All of them treated American workers like they were boot scrapings.
Maybe they can get 250k and retire at 55 in Oklahoma?
but they felt REALLY GOOD about doing so, and they're first in knowing how to use a condom
There's a cucumber farm just down the street from my school.
We are seeing almost every single Dunkin Donuts go the same way
What has happened to your police force then?
I have worked with many foreigners especially Chinese that got a full-ride scholarship.
A lot of the Chinese at my university were financed by their own government FULLY.
I believe that Indian-Americans have the highest per capita income of any ethnic group.
Then they take our jobs away.
They ace calculus and algebra.
Our kids barely pass Women's Studies and Physical Education.
raging alcoholic
Too much ether will do that.
"American workers are smarter and harder working than any other workers in the world. "
Good to see an optimistic person for a change.
"Ethyl, Ether, let's call the whole thing off!"
Urban legend. East Indians are born savers, as are Koreans. They often lend money to relatives to start their own businesses.
I knew a guy who immigrated to this country from India 25 years ago. When he first moved here, he shared a house with two other families. He worked in his brother's convenience store, bought a beat up used car, and saved every other penny. Eventually, he saved enough to buy his own shop. Today, he owns five stores and his eldest son went to Columbia.
Anytime a minority group suceeds in America, it is always attributed to some secret "government loan program" that us palefaces don't qualify for.
Ethyl, Ether, let's call the whole thing off!"
Lucy would probably agree, but I don't know about Fred.
Nice post. And very true of many legal immigrants. Koreans are the same way too many times.
Brilliant wants affirmative action for white guys.
Don't knock AA, it helps out a lot of people. I'll drink to that!
My B-school has a second campus in Beijing. All of the students had their tuition paid by the government. This is not true of other countries, however.
True. I tutored several Korean students in English and none were financed by their government. However, many came from pretty well-to-do families. The students could work up to 20 hours a week, but no more. SOME (Koreans) do take jobs in restaurants, sometimes illegally.
Note that none of the students I knew were financed by our government either UNLESS it was a PHD student who got a stipend for teaching (about 1000 a month here).
Brilliant wants affirmative action for white guys that can't compete with the rest of the world on an even playing field.
WEll, the Indians I work with aren't bad (the one in the US that is). The ones in India are not so good.
They do tend to get a bit arrogant about themselves.
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