Washington colleges continue to draw a large number of foreign students

Only in 2000/01, Indian students had shown a comparable 29.1 % exceeding 50,000 for the first time. In contrast to Chinese, Indian and Korean students the growth of Saudi students has been supported by Saudi scholarships.

A few 432 IUPUI students received academic credit for studying overseas in 2013-14, up from 358 students in 2012-13. “There’s a growing [Chinese] middle class interested in their children’s education”, Ryan told FP in an interview. “And I think you’ll see the same in response to Paris”. “The Chinese want to be competitive in the 21st century”.

The growth of postgraduate students has also been fuelled by more people having access to higher education.

In the current academic year, India, China and Brazil accounted for most of the growth in global students on USA campuses.

The increase in the number of students from India represents the largest growth from a single country, states the report, titled “Open Doors” India has now overtaken China, which witnessed only 11 per cent increase in the number of students going to the USA during the corresponding period. Ohio, Illinois, and IN universities, for example, have offices IN India and China. While it is normal to seek out others who share the same language and culture, “the bigger the cohort”, said Blumenthal, “the easier it is to do that”. In fact, Goodman said that the maturation of student services in recent years has helped integrate students from diverse communities on college campuses. The University of IL now football games in Chinese. Between 2009 and 2014, the number of global students has increased by 41 per cent to reach a total of 974,926.

Former Yale University English professor William Deresiewicz’s book, Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life, created a firestorm in the United States when it was released in August 2014.

Even with the challenges, Blumenthal views the influx of Chinese students not just as a net positive for the Chinese students themselves, but also for their American classmates. “America is going to be dealing with China as a partner and as a competitor for years to come”, she said. Graduate students have it a little better.

The number of worldwide students at American colleges rose faster this year than it has in decades, as schools worked harder than ever to lure the lucrative students and their tuition dollars.

As of now, U of M does not plan to ask students, faculty or staff to come back home because they say the situation has been normalized in Paris.

In 2009/10 there were 9,925 Indian students in the capital but the number dropped to 4,790 in 2013/14.

With a whopping 29.4 percent increase, a record high of 132,888 Indian students studying in the U.S. in 2014/15 academic year contributed $3.6 billion to the United States economy, according to a new report.