Flush with money, eager Chinese students flock to U.S.

[OhioChick]

Source: CNN

Mon November 17, 2008

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Chinese students are enrolling in U.S. universities in record numbers, encouraged by aggressive recruiting combined with China's booming economy and growing middle class.

Their enrollment grew by 8 percent in the fall of 2006 and by 20 percent last year, according to Institute of International Education figures being released Monday.

Individual universities surveyed by The Associated Press also are reporting high growth this year.

Chinese enrollment increased 300 percent this year at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania. George Fox University in Newberg, Ore., accepted 65 students from China, more than double its 2007 figure.

Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, already boasting a strong international student program, is enrolling 290 Chinese students, up from 127. The spike was more than 400 percent at Ohio State University, the nation's largest campus, with 115 undergraduates from China compared with 20 last year.

Xiaoli Liu, an Ohio State freshman from Beijing, said Chinese universities offer solid academics but can't compete with the overall experience of higher education in America, including more opportunities for out-of-class activities, an open learning environment and diversity.

"In China you can seldom find people from the U.S., but in the U.S. you find people from all over the world," Xiaoli said.

The influx is part of a solid and welcomed rebound in the number of international students coming to the United States, with its giant pool of 4,000 colleges and universities.



Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/11/17/chinese.students.ap/index.html

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Too bad many U.S. students can't afford a college education.

[ChromeFoundry]

1. Thanks to the Walmart scholarship fund! n/t

[OhioChick]

3. And let's not forget to thank bu$h and his cronies. n/t

[AlphaCentauri]

2. Looks like future chinese managers will be educated in the US n/t

[FarCenter]

4. Good, they will all go into investment banking

and various fiels of financial manipulation, and their economy will collapse.

[AlphaCentauri]

6. Many Latin American leader were educated in the US

and haven't accomplish anything but corruption

[onehandle]

5. If you encounter these kids, be very nice to them.

They will be your boss some day. And their children will own your children.

Don't piss off the Chinese.

[Waiting For Everyman]

14. As Obama said,

"Yeah - I don't do cowering".

The Chinese don't believe that, and they're right. If we don't pay them back, they're screwed. They're screwed anyway because they can't feed off our economy anymore, their own consumer base isn't developed enough yet to sustain them, and there isn't another one in the world besides ours which is big enough.

[EpicObama]

7. So U.S students are finding it increasingly difficult.....

to pay for education at their own universities while the Chinese are finding it increasingly easier to fill up those seats.
Not that i have anything against the Chinese but come on, theres someting wrong with this picture.
Somebody explain this logic to me.

Thank you Bush.

[kirby]

9. It is easy...

1) High school kids buys Xbox360, PS3, iPod, Stereo, Computer, Laptop, and other consumer items.
2) Money from purchase goes to China where it is all made and some of it trickles down.
3) Chinese parents who want better for their children use money to send kids abroad.

* some can argue step #1 is in lieu of studying.

[Azlady]

8. There simply is not logic to this

Our students are getting their education ripped right out from underneath them. I believe universities/college should be required to offer one full scholarship to a US citizen student for every foreign student that is granted access to our education system.

What I would like to know.... if the world says I our education system sucks, how come they are flocking here to get their degrees... I am just a little confused here

[OhioChick]

10. I guess our educational system doesn't suck that bad, 'eh? n/t

[Azlady]

11. Once again... something stinks

I think this type of article shows just how much we have been snowed here in the USA! Again, another article I will be sending to my Rep and to change.gov

[Javaman]

12. personally, I welcome our new chinese overlords.

next up in the block, "this little baby is over 100 years old and going strong! well maintained and recently upgraded, now my Chinese fellows, the bids start at 100,000 dollars for this piece of Americana! The Statue of Liberty!"

[Waiting For Everyman]

13. Well if we hadn't "privatized" our state-owned universities (and hospitals, etc.)

But oh no, "private is better" remember that? Competition of the marketplace and all that. It would drive down prices, so Reagan told us.

He was an ass - with a huge following of asses.