International
people of money.
International student recruiting:
By Stacie Nevadomski Berdan
T
he pressure continues to vember 16 by the Institute of International third consecutive year of signifi cant growth.
prepare students academi- Education (IIE) with support from the U.S. “Th e all-time high number of international
cally for participation in a Department of State’s Bureau of Education- students who studied here in the 2008/09
global workforce. Yet bud- al and Cultural Aff airs. Th is is the largest academic year testifi es to the quality and
gets are being squeezed. percentage increase in international student diversity for which American higher educa-
Enrollment on U.S. campuses of students enrollments since 1980/81, and marks the tion is known around the world,” says Un-
from abroad is a source of cash and diversity
of increasing importance. Th e number of
Foreign students
international students in the United States
fell aft er visa regulations were tightened fol-
Percent of the
lowing the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Now that
2008-09 enrolled there school’s total
number is increasing. In the 2008/09 aca-
enrollment
demic year, the number of international stu-
University of Southern California 7,482 22%
dents at U.S. colleges and universities hit a
New York University 6,761 13%
record high of 671,616, according to the an-
nual Open Doors report published on No-
Columbia University 6,685 26%
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