Homework # 2

 2005

India is the leading place of origin for international students with 80,466 students in the U.S. in 2004/05 (an increase of 1% from the previous year), followed by #2 China (62,523, up 1%), #3 Korea (53,358, up 2%), #4 Japan (42,215, up 3%), #5 Canada (28,140, up 4%), #6 Taiwan (25,914, down 1%), #7 Mexico (13,063, down 2%), #8 Turkey (12,474, up 9%), #9 Germany (8,640, down 1%), #10 Thailand (8,637, down 3%), #11 United Kingdom (8,236, down 2%), #12 Indonesia (7,760, down 13%), #13 Colombia (7,334, down 3%), #14 Brazil (7,244, down 7%), #15 Hong Kong, China (7,180, down 2%), #16 Kenya (6,728, down 9%), #17 France (6,555, down 4%), #18 Nigeria (6,335, up 3%), #19 Pakistan (6,296, down 14%), #20 Malaysia (6,142, down 5%).

 2009
India is the leading place of origin for international students in the United States with 103,260 in 2008/09 (an increase of 9% from the previous year), followed by #2 China (98,510, up 21%) #3 South Korea (75,065, up 9%), #4 Canada (29,697, up 2%), #5 Japan (29,264, down 14%), #6 Taiwan (28,065, down 3%), #7 Mexico (14,850, up 0.1%), #8 Turkey (13,263, up 10%), #9 Vietnam (12,823, up 46%), #10 Saudi Arabia (12,661, up 28%), #11 Nepal (11,581, up 30%), #12 Germany (9,679, up 9%), #13 Brazil (8,767, up 16%), #14 Thailand (8,736, down 3%), #15 United Kingdom (8,701, up 4%), #16 Hong Kong (8,329, up 1%) #17 Indonesia (7,509, down 2%), #18 France (7,421, up 5%), #19 Colombia (7,013, up 5%), #20 Nigeria (6,256, up 1%), #21 Malaysia (5,942, up 10%), #22 Kenya (5,877, up 1%), #23 Pakistan (5,298, down 1%), #24 Russia (4,908, up 0%), and #25 Venezuela (4,678, up 5%). (For further details on the trends in recent years from each of these leading places of origin, go to the Open Doors website and click on “Country Sheets”). The top ten most popular fields of study for international students in the United States in 2008/09 were Business and Management (21% of total), Engineering (18%) and Physical and Life Sciences (9%), Social Sciences (9%), Mathematics and Computer Science (8%), Health Professions (5%), Fine & Applied Arts (5%), Intensive English Language (4%), Humanities (3%), Education (3%), and Agriculture (1%). Undeclared majors are excluded from the rankings of top fields of study.

For the eighth year in a row, the University of Southern California is the leading host institution with 7,482 international students. New York University hosts the second highest number of foreign students (6,761). Other campuses in the top 10 are: Columbia University (6,685), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (6,570), Purdue University (6,136), University of Michigan – Ann Arbor (5,790), University of Texas – Austin (5,703), University of California – Los Angeles (5,590), Boston University (5,037), and Michigan State University (4,757).

California remains the leading host state for international students (93,124, up 10%), followed by New York (74,934, up 7%), Texas (58,188, up 12%), Massachusetts (33,838, up 6%), Florida (30,386, up 14%), Illinois (29,887, up 4%), Pennsylvania (27,529, up 6%), Michigan (23,617, 3%), Ohio (20,725, up 7%), and Indiana (17,098, up 10%). (For breakdowns by state, including leading host institutions and leading fields of study and places of origin for foreign students studying in each state, go to the Open Doors website and click on “State Sheets”). 



Based on this statistic

2019

International Students in U.S, majority may consisted of Chinese students approximately