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May 10, 2011 TrV No. 78, p. 12,
Andrey Kalinichev
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International students in France

The number of foreign students in France has increased sharply in recent years: between 2002 and 2009. it increased by 25%. In 2010, 214 thousand foreigners were enrolled in universities in France, i.e. about 10% of all applicants. Almost half of them (101 thousand) are from Africa (mainly Moroccans and Algerians), about 38 thousand are from the European Union (mainly Germans and Italians) and 21 thousand are from China. In the Higher Normal Schools in the same

In 2010, 27 thousand foreign students were enrolled, or 12% of the total. The most attractive universities for foreign students are the universities and high schools of Paris, Versailles, Nice, Montpellier and Strasbourg.

International graduate students in the USA

In the United States, the number of applications for graduate school in 2011 continued its steady growth for the sixth year in a row. According to a recent report from the Council of Graduate Schools, growth is 9%, the same as last year. China (up 18%), India (up 7%) and South Korea (up 2%) are the three largest suppliers of international graduate students. However, applications from the Middle East and Turkey also continue to grow at a rapid pace (by 12% in 2011 after growing by as much as 20% a year ago). The greatest growth is observed in the fields of natural sciences and engineering (13%, the same as last year), while the number of applications for business education shows the smallest increase - by 4%. In total, in 2010, more than 700 thousand foreign students and graduate students studied in the United States.

Salaries of bachelor's graduates in the USA

Engineering graduates top the list of highest-paid new bachelor's degrees among all new bachelor's degrees, according to the latest survey from the National Association of Colleges and Employers. Their average starting annual salary is more than $60,000. Computer science is the only non-engineering specialty that pays even higher on average—$63,017 per year. Among the engineering specialties, the most valued are chemical engineers ($66,886 per year on average), mechanical engineers ($60,739), and electrical engineers ($60,646). On average, across more than 70 bachelor's majors, according to a survey of graduates of all four-year colleges in the United States, starting annual salaries for graduates are $50,034—an increase of 3.5% over last year (via CNN).

Andrey Kalinichev

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