This year's report shows a 91% decline in the total number of U.S. students who studied abroad during the 2020-2021 academic year. The pandemic also led colleges to develop more online global learning opportunities.
Students fromcomprise more than half – 52% – of all international students. That isn't anything new, but what is noteworthy is that during the 2021-2022 academic year, Chinese student enrollment fell 9% and the number of Indian students increased by 19% over the prior year. This has big implications for international diversity at U.S. colleges.
, while most Indian students – 66.4% – study in just a handful of programs: engineering, math and computer science.more students from China than from any other country. While the onset of the global pandemic effectively halted travel between China and the U.S. due to flight restrictions and widespread lockdowns, the decline in Chinese enrollment began years earlier.
Contributing factors include Chinese parents' concerns for their children's safety in the U.S., development of China's own world-class universities and souring relations between the two countries, which has spilled over into the higher education sector. In fact, in 2019, China's Ministry of Education warned students against studying in the U.S. due to the risk of encountering visa problems.China and India each have around 1.
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