Apr
23
Foreign graduate applications to American universities are continuing to rise, according to the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) figures for April 2007.
The CGS figures, part of a yearly three-part survey keeping track of international applications, show that there is a rise of eight per cent for international student admissions and enrollments for the fall 2007 semester.
This is following on a 12 per cent rise last year (06).
Statistics were taken from 145 schools, out of which eight come from the top 10 schools with the largest international populations.
Despite the increase in numbers, the growth rate itself is slowing with overall applications lessening by the year. For example, the CGS’s first ever survey, taken in 2004, shows significantly higher numbers - the growth rate now is down 20 per cent from 2003’s rate of 25 per cent.
Director of the Carnegie Mellon physics Graduate Program Ling-Fong Li says, “It all goes back to economics. As more and more countries develop their economies, less of their students will come to the United States for an experience they cannot find in their own country.”
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