A STRATEGY FOR ATTRACTING INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS

The number of postsecondary students in the world has risen more than 50 % in the past 10 years, pointing to the possibility of 80 million additional students between now and 2025. The world’s 5 million internationally mobile students make up 2.2 % of all postsecondary students and may double to reach 9 million by 2025.
The most spectacular growth has been in students from Asia–Oceania (+90 %, or +51 million), ahead of Sub-Saharan Africa (+72 %, +3.5 million) and the Middle East (+72 %, +5.1 million). Growth in the mobile student population is weakest on the European continent. Plus...