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This is another good article that I could draw figures on - Most Foreign Students in China are Korean. Out of the 184 foreign countries sending students to Chna, the majority are Koreans!!! There were 162,695 foreigners studying at 519 colleges and schools nationwide. (Thank goodness for these data. From the Western media, it almost sounds as though half of the US has gone to China to study Chinese....ROFL...)

Koreans  57,504
Japan 18,363
US 11,784
Vietnam 7,310
Indonesia 5,652

Liberal Arts 114,846
Chinese language 98,701 
Arts 2,118
Medicine  20,355 (13,225 in Western medicine; 7,130 in Chinese medicine)
Economics  7,308 

Now read this article. Over 70% of the Chinese students who goes overseas to study does not return to China. Not only because they may be adverse to the one child policy, it is because they face equally as much competition when they return plus, they have to have the right connections for jobs.

China fears brain drain as its overseas students stay put

Posted on November 15, 2007:

What a nice survey!  There are 564,766 foreign students in the US, 263 (0.05% decrease) less than last year.  The US has fewer foreign students in the last three years due to the terrorists scare and stricter controls of visa issuance. this year, the State Department has issued 591, 050 visas ending in September, the highest ever in the last 5 years. Asia accounts for 58% of the foreign students. Here are the top 5 countries who send students to the US.

India 76,503 (decreased by 4.9% but still accounts for 13.5% of total foreign student body)

China 62,582 (increased by 0.1%)

South Korea (accounts for 10.4% of total foreign student body)

Japan (decreased by 8%)

Canada

The University of Southern California had the highest enrollment of foreign students for the fifth consecutive year with 6,881 from overseas. California leads the nation with 75,385 international students at schools throughout the state. Countries showing strong growth included South Korea, Taiwan, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Nepal and Vietnam.

The most popular field of studies in 2005/2006 are:

18% Business and Management

16% Engineering

9% Physical and Life Sciences

8% Social Sciences

8% Mathematics and Computer Sciences.

In the meantime,  nearly 206,000 Americans went abroad to study, England being their No. 1 destination. But China was rapidly gaining popularity, 6,389 students going there for a 34.9 percent increase, ranking the country eighth.

Japan was the destination for 4,100 American students, a 10.6 percent increase. It was ranked 11th.

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