U.S. is Host to 25% of Students Enrolled Outside Own Countries
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Jan. 13-One-fourth of all the world's students studying outside their own countries are enrolled in the United States, according to a survey just made )y the United...
...The book lists more than 215000 grants, which are offered by 1,773 contributing universities, governments and Other organizations...
...Is Up Thnioh thn TnitTrl tnte hc the largest number of foreign students, they form a smaller I percentage of the student population than in Britain-1.5 perl cent of all United States enrollments as against 10.5 per cent in Britain...
...While many countries are included, nearly half of all openings are in the United States, France, West Germany, the Sovietl Union and Britain...
...13-One-fourth of all the world's students studying outside their own countries are enrolled in the United States, according to a survey just made )y the United Nations Educaional, Scientific and Cultural aiatificstudents )rganizatson...
...It shows that the world total of such students rose from approximately 290,000 when the last survey was made in 1965 to 341,660 this year...
...The enrollment In the United States has increased by a little more than 10 per cent over the 1965 figure of about 74,000...
...Enrollment In U.S...
...The survey has been pubished as part of a 680-page , .. olume titled "Study Abroad," Nhich also lists 215,000 scholarhips and grants from 120 countries available to foreign students...
...Of that number, 82,709 are foreign stu- unredents in the United States, and more than 42,000 of these students hold fellowships of various kinds...
...The book is available at $5 a copy from the UNESCO Pubments lications Center, 317 East 34th 'Street, New York 10016 and from the United Nations book shop...
...Study abroad" includes a section on vacation study, covering short-term opportuni ties, mostly at university level, in 52 countries...
...Almost 50 per cent of t"unr openings are in the "unredents stricted" category of general studies...
...Nearly 25 per cent fall in the fields of science and a little more than 4 per cent in education...
...Though the statistics are interesting evidence of growing United States influence in world education the main purpose of the publication is to inform of opportunities for study abroad with financial aid...
Vol. 1 • December 1967 • No. 9
