Hundreds of thousands of Chinese students are flocking to U.S. colleges and universities, helping to drive the number of foreign students to record levels in America.
Similarly, all many times of American students are studying abroad, although there is much less and they tend to do a lot more short periods than students to come to the United States.
The findings are released Monday in an analysis that was conducted by a non-profit group that has worked with the State Department.
They say international education programs make more cultural enrichment advance; they are also an economic boon for communities that welcome foreign students and students themselves, that improve their competitiveness of labour.
Foreign students contribute about $24bn annually to the U.S. economy and about two-thirds of them primarily pay their own way, or make their families, according to the Institute of International Education and the Department of State Bureau of educational and Cultural Affairs.
All told, 819 644 students came to the United States to study abroad during the school year 2012-13. The largest number came from China, India, South Korea, Saudi Arabia and the Canada. It is a record, with an increase of 7% from a year earlier and 40% for more than ten years ago. Despite the increases, students represent less than 4% of all students.
There was a slowdown in the number of students who come to the United States in the years after the attacks of 9/11, partly because of visa problems, but the number has since bounced back.
About 235,000 international students come from China, an increase of 21%. A middle class booming combined with a view that America has quality and universities colleges were the contributing factors described under the guidance of the application. About a third of businesses surveyed and management upon their arrival, according to the report.
"Chinese students and their parents are looking for the quality of education, get the importance of international education and it's America as the No. 1 destination, because we have the capacity to host foreign students," said Allan Goodman, president and CEO of the Institute.
The number of students in the study of Saudi Arabia to the United States surged by 30% for the 45 000. These students are largely funded by a Saudi Government almost scholarship program in its tenth year, the report said.
The main destinations for foreign students have been the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, the Urbana University of Illinois at Champaign, Illinois, Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, New York University and Columbia University in New York.
In contrast, 283 332 U.S. students studied abroad for college credit - an increase of 3% from the previous year.
During the past 20 years, it has tripled the number of American students studying abroad. But less than 10% of American students study abroad during their college years. The United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, France and China have been the main destinations.
Attention related to the Olympic Games in Beijing and more classes taught in English are factors from lead more American students to China, Goodman said. A Department of State called Strong 100 000 program, officially launched in 2010, is designed to send 100,000 American students in China, over a period of four years.
The report found that 14 887 Americans studied in China in 2011-2012 - an increase of 2%, but that includes step students travelling to China for large programs.
"We encourage study abroad, either in the short term, long term, if it has credit, which," said Evan Ryan, a State Department official, on a conference call with journalists.
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