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Parents pay for students to go abroad

SOME 87 percent of Chinese who studied abroad last year received financial support from their parents, China.com.cn, a government-run website, reported yesterday.

A survey by education research company MyCOS said 1.64 percent of students graduating from China's top 211 universities in 2009 went abroad for study.

According to the survey, the majority of the students who studied abroad took economics and business management as their major.

The survey also showed 9 percent of those studying abroad received scholarships from foreign institutions while 3 percent supported themselves through part-time jobs. One percent were funded by the Chinese government.

Chinese universities and colleges graduated 6.1 million students in 2009, according to the Ministry of Education.



 

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