China’s Ministry of Education is reporting that the number of foreign students in the country reached a record high of more than 260,000 in 2010. Statistics from the ministry carried by the official China Daily on Friday showed that 265,090 students from 194 countries were studying in China. That represented a jump of 8 percent from the 240,000 students in 2009.
This will have a direct impact on the admissions frenzy across many elite colleges and universities across the world, as talented Chinese students flood the ‘college market’ that has already been growing in ‘demand’ with competition and number of applications increasing steeply by the year, and acceptance rates ever lower.
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