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

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