The number of international students in the United States set an all-time high during the 2018-2019 academic year, while fewer new foreign students started classes in U.S institutions, according to new statistics from the “Open Doors” report.
According to the 2019 Open Doors Report released Tuesday by the State Department-sponsored Institute of International Education (IIE), international student numbers in the US increased by 0.05 percent in the 2018-2019 academic year to mark an all-time high of 1,095,299, the fourth consecutive year with more than one million international students.
