Higher Education in The United States - Student Exchange

Student Exchange

262,416 American students studied outside the country in 2007-8. More than 140,000 of these are studying in Europe.

671,616 foreign students enrolled in American colleges in 2008-9. This figure rose to 723,277 in 2010-2011. The largest number, 157,558, came from China.

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Famous quotes containing the words student and/or exchange:

    “Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows. The really diligent student in one of the crowded hives of Cambridge College is as solitary as a dervis in the desert.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “But come what sorrow can,
    It cannot countervail the exchange of joy
    That one short minute gives me in her sight.”
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