Number of Foreign Students in US Hits Record High
Source: ABC News
WASHINGTON — Nov 17, 2014, 12:05 AM ET
The number of foreign exchange students studying at U.S. colleges and universities is at a record high, with nearly one-third coming from China.
A report by the Institute of International Education, in partnership with the State Department's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, said nearly 900,000 international students were studying in the U.S. during the 2013-14 school year, up 8 percent from a year earlier.
During the same period, there was a nearly 17 percent increase in the number of Chinese students.
The other top countries of origin were India, South Korea, Saudi Arabia and Canada.
The United States hosts more of the world's 4.5 million globally mobile higher education students than any other country, but just a little more than 4 percent of all undergraduate and graduate students are international students.
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Snip~ "A burgeoning middle class combined with a view that America has quality colleges and universities are factors cited to be pushing the demand from China. Kuwait, Brazil and Saudi Arabia were also among the countries that have seen double-digit gains in the percentage of students coming to the United States to study, and government-funded scholarships have likely contributed to the growth."
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own children.
Educating your own, and their, Masters. On your nickel.
" From all these indignities, such as the very beasts of the field would not endure, you can deliver yourselves if you try, not by taking action, but merely by willing to be free. Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces."
de la Botie, here.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-17/chinese-students-at-u-s-universities-jump-75-in-three-years.html
well, it's a university with a venture capital office.
Several of them.
At the university, around their classes students are encouraged to start an IT venture. In the "Student Office / Venture Office", of SOVO, they can work with other students, are provided various kinds of support ($$$) and get to keep profits.
Damn Communists.
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As China’s economic growth slows, it is shifting its base from manufacturing, which has powered its growth, to tertiary industry, where the IT and software sector holds the key. In the forefront of this trend is Neusoft Corp., one of China’s biggest software companies. Founded 23 years ago by Liu Jiren with three computers, the company has introduced new services to China one after the other. The company provides IT services including car electronics, health care, social insurance, energy and telecom.
Liu has also established universities that specialize in IT education. The schools allow students to start in-house ventures where they can gain hands-on experience in management.
Liu shares his views on the role the IT industry should play in the Chinese economy and how to nurture IT talent.
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Here.
Over here, where we already built and staffed some great schools...heck, we had great and free universities for a long time, of various scales - and with a constitution that guarantees us the right to build whatever university we want, we don't _just_ watch as the benefits we used to derive from those dwindle, but we actively participate and pay to help others to get them with your labor, and mine.
Happy Holidays.