United States | Foreign students
Coming and going
Bright foreigners like to study in America. Shame they can’t stay
THE number of foreign students at universities in America reached a new high of 819,644 last year. Many of them came from China on F-1 visas, which are reserved for students. Chinese studying in America now number 200,000, up from 16,000 in 2003. Students from India, South Korea and Saudi Arabia also flock to America’s top-notch universities.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline "Coming and going"
From the August 30th 2014 edition
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