By Claudia Civinini. The new fee regime will come into action at the start of the next academic year – September 2019 – and was announced in the international recruitment strategy that Campus France developed in collaboration with the French government.
International students who are not nationals of an EEA member, or Switzerland, and enrol for the first time in a French higher education institution will pay €2,770 for undergraduate and €3,770 at master’s and doctoral level. More...

By Claudia Civinini. There were 343,400 foreign students in the French higher education system, signalling a growth of 4.5% since 2016 according to figures released by the Ministry of Education.
The number of foreign students in tertiary education in France has grown 18% since 2012 and almost doubled between 2000 and 2017, the ministry document states.
In general, international students prefer literary disciplines (31.3%), followed by the sciences (29.1%) and economics (17.8%). Students from Africa show a slightly different trend, with most oriented towards the sciences (35.5%). 
As for the future, Bonaventure said Campus France is planning on welcoming more students coming from Francophone countries, especially in Africa, and further promoting France as a study destination in non-Francophone countries, such as China, Vietnam, India, Brazil and African and Middle Eastern countries. More...