Number of Foreign Students Rises in US美国的外国留学生的数量上升

This is the VOA Special English Education Report.
A new report says the number of foreign students at colleges and universities in the United States increased three percent last year. This was the first notable increase since two thousand one. And it included a ten percent jump in new international students.
The "Open Doors" report is from the Institute of International Education in New York, with support from the State Department.

American schools last fall had five hundred eighty-three thousand foreign students. The record is five hundred eighty-six thousand. That was set in two thousand two after many years of gains. But after that the numbers fell.
The September eleventh, two thousand one, terrorist attacks led to more restrictive visa requirements. Now, stronger efforts are being made to get more foreign students to study in the United States.
For the sixth year, India sent the most international students last fall, almost eighty-four thousand. That was up ten percent from the year before. China remained in second place, and South Korea was third.
Japan was fourth among the twenty leading senders of foreign students. But the number of Japanese fell sharply — nine percent.
There were three percent drops from Indonesia and Kenya, the only African country in the top twenty last year. But there were notable increases from Saudi Arabia, Nepal and Vietnam. The number of Saudi students more than doubled, to nearly eight thousand.
For a sixth year, the University of Southern California in Los Angeles had the most foreign students -- more than seven thousand. Columbia University in New York was second.
Other schools in the top five were New York University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Purdue University.
The leading area of study was business and management. That was the choice for eighteen percent of foreign students last year. Second was engineering.
The new report also says more than two hundred twenty thousand Americans studied in other countries. That was during the two thousand five-two thousand six school year. It was a record number, and an increase of eight and a half percent from the year before. But only five and a half percent of them stayed for a full year.
And that's the VOA Special English Education Report, written by Nancy Steinbach. For a link to the "Open Doors" report, go to voaspecialenglish.com. I'm Steve Ember.

美国的外国留学生的数量上升

这里是VOA特别英语教育报道。
一份新报告说在美国高校的留学生的数量去年增加3%。从2001年起这是第一个值得注意的增加。并且它包括一次新外国留学生10% 的猛增。
这份“公开的”报告来自纽约得到政府部门支持的国际教育研究所。美国学校去年秋季有583000名留学生。这项记录是586000名。那是经过多年增长的2002年的记录。那以后数量就下降了。
2001年9月11日恐怖袭击事件导致了更严格的签证规定。现在，正在做出更强大的努力让更多的留学生到美国学习。
第六年，印度去年秋季派出了最多的留学生，将近84000人。这比前年上升了10%。中国仍排在第二位，韩国排名第三。
在20个主要留学生的派出国中，日本列第四。但日本学生的数量急剧下降——9%。
下降3%的国家有印度尼西亚和肯尼亚, 去年唯一名列前二十位的非洲国家。但显著增加的国家有沙特阿拉伯、尼泊尔和越南。沙特学生的数量增加1倍多，接近八千。
对第6年来说，在洛杉矶的南加州大学的留学生最多——超过7000人。在纽约的哥伦比亚大学排第二。
其他学校前5名分别为美国纽约大学，伊利诺大学香槟分校和普渡大学。主要的研究领域是商业和管理。这就是去年18％的外国留学生的选择。其次是工程学。
新报告也说超过22万名美国人在其他国家学习。那是2005— 2006学年。这是一项创记录的数字，比前一年增长了8.5%。但只有5.5％的人呆了整整一年。
以上VOA特别英语教育报道，由南希·斯坦芭撰稿。需要“公开的”报道文本，请登陆voaspecialenglish.com 。我是史蒂夫·安贝。