Big Ten Universities Become Bigger With International Students

By Rahul Choudaha and Di Hu. American universities and colleges enrolled 350,000 more international students in 2014/15 as compared to 2007/08, indicating strong attractiveness of U.S. higher education institutions among globally mobile students. During the period of seven years since the beginning of the global financial recession, the number of international students in the U.S. increased by 56% to reach nearly 975,000 students. However, the international student enrollment at ten leading public research universities has grown much faster, at a rate of 74% ,reaching nearly 90,000 international students in the same period. More...