More than half of all foreign students worldwide are enrolled in Europe. Over the past nine years, their overall number has risen by over 80 percent, to more than 1.5 million. The main growth has been with non-European source countries, particularly in Asia. But about one quarter of these students have not been mobile — they lived already in their country of study, even though they held a foreign passport. And numbers of foreign students differ radically between European destinations. Outflows are also unevenly distributed, and go mainly to other European countries. Less than 15 percent of European study abroad students leave their own continent.
These are some headline findings of the new study Mapping Mobility in European Higher Education, which has just been published electronically by the European Commission, for whom it was produced. It was written by the Academic Cooperation Association (ACA) and INCHER (University of Kassel), in cooperation with ACA members DAAD and CampusFrance, as well as HIS (Hannover). Mapping Mobility provides an in-depth and up-to-date account of student mobility into, out of, and between 32 European countries. The study also sums up the globally available knowledge on staff mobility, and includes in-depth case studies of 11 European countries.
To access the report, please visit: http://ec.europa.eu/education/news/news3101_en.htm
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