(from Pew Research) In a trend largely paralleling that at many boarding schools, U.S. colleges and universities saw the number of foreign students enrolled on their campuses double from 2008 to 2016. The growth rate of 104 percent, based on an analysis of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement data, far outpaces overall college enrollment growth of 3.4 percent during the same period. In 2016, nearly 364,000 foreign students with F-1 visas were newly enrolled at a U.S. institution of higher education. More than half of the new students during this period came from China, India and South Korea.
Growth was especially pronounced at public colleges and universities, whose reliance on tuition from foreign students rose after budget cuts triggered by the 2008 recession. But private colleges weren't far behind; foreign students on their campuses increased 98 percent during the eight-year period, reaching 144,697 in 2016. These students spend disproportionately more, too. In all, estimated spending by new foreign students at public universities grew by nearly 214 percent after 2008, to $7.8 billion in 2016.
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