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China leads invasion of foreign students on US campuses

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The story, once again, is China. Thousands of mainland Chinese students in pursuit of an American education helped drive up international enrollments at colleges across the United States last fall, according to the latest “Open Doors” report from the Institute of International Education.

Double-digit growth from China, primarily at the undergraduate level, along with a steady uptick in Saudi Arabian students are largely responsible for the increase in international enrollments to 764,495, a 5.7-percent rise over the year before.

Full story: China Continues to Drive Foreign-Student Growth in the United States

The Chronicle of Higher Education