Indians rapidly replacing Chinese at US universities

Asia Times ^

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While the Covid-19 pandemic contributed to a 45.6% decline in new international students in 2020, the latest data, covering the 2021-2022 academic year, indicates that the total number of international students in the US – 948,519 – has started to recover.

This can be seen in a 3.8% increase over the 914,095 international students in the U.S. in 2020. Still, the number is well below the nearly 1.1 million international students reported in 2018. Much of the recent growth is driven by an increase in the number of new international students – 261,961 – which is up 80% over the 145,528 from 2020 but still 2.14% below the 267,712 from 2019.

Students from China and India comprise more than half – 52% – of all international students. That isn’t anything new, but what is noteworthy is that during the 2021-2022 academic year, Chinese student enrollment fell 9% and the number of Indian students increased by 19% over the prior year.

This has big implications for international diversity at US colleges. This is because Chinese students tend to enroll in a range of majors, while most Indian students – 66.4% – study in just a handful of programs: engineering, math and computer science.

[Migraine]

Kinda like the old saying: “Too many ch_nks and not enough Indians.”

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[moovova]

[heartwood]

Was visiting in a hospital, 75% of the doctors were Indian or Pakistani, many foreign.born, by the accents.