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We feature two stories this month, one from India
and one from China. India sends the most international students to
the US (
83,833) and China sends the second-largest number (67,723).
USA - The Land of Opportunity for Higher
Education
(From the Hindustan
Times)
The United States of America is a land of
opportunities. One of the advantages of the US higher educational
system is the amazing range of options offered by over 3,500
colleges and universities. These vary with programmes that differ in
various ways,the choices of academic and research programmes, types
of institutions, size, cost, diversity in student
bodies, selectivity, campus ambience to location. US
universities boast world-class faculty, quality programmes, latest
technology and equipment and cutting-edge research. Moreover, the
choice of courses is flexible.
Read the rest of the story in the Hidustan
Times Online.
Chinese Students Flock to Harvard
(From ChinaDaily.com)
The Chinese mainland has been the second largest
source of foreign students at Harvard University for the past seven
years, said the prestigious US university. Among 3,913 international
students from 141 countries studying at the university for the
2007-08 academic year, 400, or 10.22 percent, are from the Chinese
mainland, second only to 489 Canadians, the Harvard International
Office said. The number of Chinese mainland students at Harvard has
increased 81.8 percent in the past 16 years.
Read the rest of the story on ChinaDaily.com.
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