Students explore non-credit study-abroad options in China

By Sarah King Head. A new report from the Institute of International Education (IIE) – US Students in China: Meeting the goals of the 100,000 Strong Initiative – has shown that US students are increasingly choosing to explore China’s higher educational offerings in a range of ways other than through traditional for-credit programmes.
Over the past decade, the IIE’s Open Doors reports have demonstrated that the number of American students earning academic credit from their home universities for studying in China has risen on average by 18% each year. Indeed, China has come to rank not only fifth most popular country overall but also the most popular study-abroad destination outside Western Europe for this group of students since 2007. Read more...