More undergraduates flock to US school
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THE number of Chinese students seeking an undergraduate degree in the United States is, for the first time, higher than those pursuing a graduate degree, while the overall number rose by almost 11 percent year on year, according to the 2015 US Open Doors Report presented in China yesterday.
In total, 304,040 students from China’s mainland were taking classes in US institutions of higher education in the 2014-2015 academic year, marking an increase of 10.8 percent compared with the previous year.
With Chinese mainland students accounting for 31 percent of international students in the US, the number continued to outpace that of any other country for the sixth consecutive year, the report, published by the Institute of International Education and the US State Department, noted.
“We have more and more undergraduates from the Chinese mainland studying in the US in recent years because more are paying education abroad with their own money, in contrast to 20 or 25 years ago when a majority were graduate students on fellowship funds from the government,” said Lisa Heller, Minister Consular for Public Affairs at US Embassy in Beijing.
Meanwhile, students from the Chinese mainland who applied for Optional Practical Training increased by 29.1 percent in the last academic year. The OPT allows full-time foreign students who have completed or are in the process of getting their degrees for more than nine months to work in the US on a student visa for a certain period.
Universities in China, however, have dropped in popularity with US students, as 13,763 US citizens were enrolled here in the 2013-2014 academic year, a decrease of 4.5 percent compared to the previous year.
“Education of Asian languages like Chinese and Japanese for K-12 children are just picking up in the US. But China is catching up fast considering that it now well tops the choices of US students among Asian destinations for study,” Heller said.
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