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Summary of ‘2014 Trend Forecast of Studying Abroad’
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ACCORDING to the report, a total of 413,900 Chinese students went abroad to study in 2013, up by 3.58 percent from 2012. The acceptance rate to top universities dropped as the number of applicants increased.
The number of “returning turtles” also increased sharply to 353,500 in 2013, up by 29.5 percent from 2012, growing faster than the rate going out, making it more competitive in the job market.
As a trend, applicants have become increasingly younger every year. In the past, the number of applicants for master’s degrees was much larger than that of undergraduate applicants.
In 2013, 103,427 people went to America for master’s degrees while 93,768 went for undergraduate studies, a very small gap between the two. The number of students going to middle and high schools has also increased sharply.
“In some extreme cases, the applicants are first- and second-graders in primary schools,” says Joyce Lou, operation manager of Chiway. “And many of our clients are now sixth- to eighth-graders, much younger than in the past. Kids today are more mature and knowledgeable about their opportunities, and many parents are also returning turtles who know a lot about studying abroad.”
Collaborative/bilingual programs in local Chinese high schools, preparing students to apply to foreign universities, are also getting increasingly popular, with rapid growth in the number of programs and applicants.
It was reported earlier that more than 100 such programs exist in Beijing, while more than 50 are in Shanghai — about the same as in Zhejiang Province. Some 50,000 students attend such programs nationally.
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