In its October, 2014 review of the Student and Exchange Visitor Program, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has provided a statistical snapshot of the international student population and the institutions at which they study.\u00a0 According to the review, there are 1.1 million academic and vocation foreign students currently studying in the United States, and 200,782 exchange visitors here at the 8,988 U.S. institutions that have been approved to enroll academic and vocational international students.\u00a0 The vast majority of such approved institutions \u2013 77% \u2013 actually enroll 50 or fewer academic and vocational students.\u00a0 73% of all academic or vocational students are enrolled in bachelor\u2019s masters or doctoral programs while nearly 400,000 academic and vocational international students are studying in the STEM fields.\u00a0 69% of all academic and vocational STEM students are male.<\/p>\n
The review lists several trends.\u00a0 Compared to October, 2013, (a) overall, the number academic,\u00a0 vocational and exchange international students (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In its October, 2014 review of the Student and Exchange Visitor Program, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has provided a statistical snapshot of the international student population and the institutions at which they study.\u00a0 According to the review, there…<\/span><\/p>\n