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Number of Foreign Students in US Hits New High
By June Simms
2009-11-25
This is the VOA Special English Education Report.
A new report says the number of foreign students in the United States reached a record high in two thousand eight.
More than six hundred seventy thousand international students attended an American college or university last year. That was eight percent higher than the year before, the largest percentage increase since een eighty.
The "Open Doors" report is published by the Institute of International Education, with support from the State Department.
It says the number of international students last year was almost fifteen percent higher than the last record setting year, two thousand two. In all, seven of the ten top countries sent more students last year, just as the economic downturn was worsening.
For the eighth year, India remained the leader in sending students to the United States. More than one hundred thousand students from India attended American schools last year. That was nine percent more than the year before.
China again sent the second largest number, more than y-eight thousand, an increase of twenty-one percent. The biggest increases were in Chinese undergraduate students.
South Korea was third. The number of South Korean students increased nine percent to seventy-five thousand.
Canada was the only non-Asian country in the top five. It rose two percent to fourth place. Almost thirty thousand Canadian students enrolled for the school year that began last autumn.
Japan fell to fifth place. The number of Japanese students in the United States decreased for the fourth year, to just over twenty-nine thousand.
Taiwan also sent fewer students, and the number from Mexico was nearly unchanged.
The University of Southern California in Los Angeles once again had the highest number of foreign students. The "Open Doors" report says nearly seven thousand five hundred attended . last year.  
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