New Article: International Student Choices Changing

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An article in University World News notes that students who are seeking to enroll in higher education programs abroad are increasingly selecting nontraditional locations, a trend that will most likely continue in the future. As reported in Student Mobility and the Internationalization of Higher Education, a recently published book by IIE's Project Atlas, "while the top hotspot for mobile students in 2010 remained the United States, which attracted more than 720,000 of the 3.7 million international students worldwide, this total represented a decline in the US total market share from 28% in 2001 to 20%." Peggy Blumenthal, the Senior Counselor to the President at the Institute of International Education, noted that this trend was partly related to an emerging "proliferation of educational hubs" around the world. What this means is that students are pursuing higher education in locations other than just "traditional hotspots like the US, UK and Australia."

To read the full article, please visit: www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20120106164011851.