November 16, 2007
Number of Foreign Students Bounces Back to Near-Record High
The number of international students enrolled in American colleges and universities rose by 3.2 percent last fall — the first significant increase since 2001. Thanks to two consecutive years of large gains in first-time students, foreign-enrollment figures have nearly returned to their peak level, seen in 2002.
Those results appear in the latest edition of "Open Doors," an annual report on international academic mobility published by the Institute of International Education
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