"THE international mobility of students is a massive phenomenon, " says the World Science Report 1993. Out of a
total of 61 million students in the world, about 2 per cent
(1.2 million) study in foreign universities.
The regions that send the most students abroad are:
the Middle and Near East, North Africa, Sub-Saharan
Africa, the Newly Industrialised Countries (NICs) of Asia
and China. The European Community and the European
Free Trade Association nations also have significant
numbers of their students in a foreign country, usually
another European country.
In terms of the proportion of students going abroad
(the "expatriation rate"), Sub-Saharan Africa comes first,
with a rate of 14 per cent.
The US is the most popular student destination, with
more than 400,000 pupils, which is over one-third of the
world's total of internationally mobile students. The next
most important student recipients are France, Germany
and the UK, in that order.
In terms of the ratio of foreign students to the total
number of students, Switzerland and Belgium are the
most welcoming countries.
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