Will Chinese international student numbers rebound in the US?
Staff, 2022-10-21 06:08:41,
UNITED STATES-CHINA
A recent article in The Chronicle of Higher Education revealed that new Chinese student enrolments for autumn 2022 had declined by 45% in the United States compared to the previous year and are now only 47,429, according to new visa data.
This is alarming news for sure, but not unexpected. The question remains: will Chinese student numbers ever rebound in the United States? The answer is yes, but there’s more to it.
In September 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 global pandemic, I wrote a column for Inside Higher Ed detailing the problems of recruiting Chinese students.
Back then, COVID had largely subsided in China, so health concerns were among the biggest deterrents for Chinese families seeking to send their children to the US, along with hostile political rhetoric from the Trump administration, tougher visa scrutiny, travel restrictions and surging anti-Asian racist attacks.
International curricula
One of the direct results of these concerns was the massive number of Chinese families pulling their children out of international curricula at public and private high schools and back to the national curriculum for Chinese university admission.
First-year enrolment at international curriculum schools also took a hit in the autumn of 2020 and 2021. Even at some of the elite schools, the decline was as steep as 60%. Many of these students would have applied to US higher education institutions for the autumn 2022 intake.
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