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ERIC ED407031: Recruitment Dynamic of Foreign Students into United States Postsecondary Institutions: The Implications for Education and International Development.

The enrollment of foreign students in U.S. postsecondary educational institutions has far reaching implications for world education and international development. An analysis of enrollment data, however, indicates a wide variation in enrollment by region and country. In 1992-93, approximately 59% of the 439,000 international students enrolled in American colleges and universities came from South, Central, and East Asian countries, and data for 1993-94 showed dramatic increases for these areas. In contrast, between 1985 and 1994 enrollment of students from the United Kingdom, Canada, and Thaila…