U.S. students in Taiwan also record increase, but proportion falls
Taiwan News
Date: 2018/12/19
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
The University of California at Berkeley (photo by gku) (By Wikimedia Commons)
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – The number of Taiwanese students heading for the United States to continue their studies has been rising again after diving 20 percent over the previous decade, according to Ministry of Education data released Wednesday.
Figures show that during the academic year 2017-2018, a total of 22, 454 students from Taiwan were registered in the U.S., a slight rise from the 21,516 during the previous year, the Central News Agency reported.
Taiwan was maintaining its position as the seventh largest source of foreign students in the U.S., while over the previous 10 years, the number of Taiwanese had slipped by 5,611, or about 20 percent, the ministry said.
The most popular area of study included science, engineering and mathematics, followed by business management and arts or social studies.
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