EDUCATION REPORT - Foreign Student Series 15 >Institute of I

EDUCATION REPORT - Foreign Student Series¹ #15 >Institute of International Education Report

By Nancy Steinbach

Broadcast December 26, 2002

This is the VOA Special English Education Report.

We continue our series of reports about how foreign students can study at an American college or university. This
information also can be found on the Special English Web² page at w-w-w dot voaspecialenglish dot com.

Every year, the Institute of International Education publishes a report about foreign students who are studying in
the United³ States. The report this year is called “Open Doors, Two-Thousand-Two.
”

The report gives information about the school year that began in September of last year and ended in May of this
year. It says more than five-hundred-eighty-thousand international students attended American colleges and
universities during that time. This was the largest number of international students ever.

The University of Southern California⁴ at Los Angeles reported the largest number of foreign students. More than
five-thousand-nine-hundred foreign students attended U-S-C last year. New York University had the second
largest number of students, about five-thousand-five-hundred.

The report says the state of California had the most foreign students, with about seventy-eight-thousand living
there last year. New York state was next, with about sixty-two-thousand foreign students. Texas was third, with
more than forty-four-thousand students.

India sent the most foreign students to the United States last year. More than sixty-six-thousand students from
India attended American schools. China sent the next highest number of students, more than sixty-threethousand. South Korea⁵ was third, with forty-nine-thousand students. Japan was fourth, with more than forty-sixthousand students.

The report says the most popular subjects of study for international students in the United States last year were
business and management. Twenty percent of all foreign students were studying those subjects. Fifteen percent
studied engineering⁶. Thirteen percent studied mathematics⁷ and computer science.

The report contains much more information than we have time to provide here. You can get details by using a
computer to go to the Institute of International Education Web site. That address is w-w-w dot i-i-e dot o-r-g.
(www.iie.org)

This V-O-A Special English Education Report was written by Nancy Steinbach.

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1 series   

n.连续；系列

参考例句：

• The students have put forward a series of questions.学生们提出了一系列问题。
• He gave forth a series of works in rapid succession.他很快连续发表了一系列的作品。

2 web   

n.网，蛛丝，蹼，织物，圈套，卷筒纸；vi.生蹼，形成网；vt.织蜘蛛网于，使落入圈套

参考例句：

• The spider weaves a web.蜘蛛织网。
• You mean the World Wide Web?你是说国际互联网？

3 united   

adj.和谐的；团结的；联合的，统一的

参考例句：

• The whole nation is closely united.全国人民紧密团结。
• The two men were united by community of interests.共同的利益使两个人结合在一起。

4 California   

n.加利福尼亚(美国)

参考例句：

• He was elected governor of the state of California.他当选为加州州长。
• We were driving on a California freeway.我们正沿着加利福尼亚的一条快车道驾车行驶。

5 Korea   

n.朝鲜(亚洲)

参考例句：

• Korea lies to the east of China.韩国位于中国东面。
• Korea and China are separated by only the Yalu River.朝鲜和中国只隔一条鸭绿江。

6 engineering   

n.工程，工程学，管理，操纵

参考例句：

• The science of engineering began as soon as man learned to use tools. 人类一学会使用工具,工程科学就开始了。
• It was the first great engineering works in the world. 这是世界上第一家大型的工程工厂。

7 mathematics   

n.（用作单）数学；（用作单或复）计算(能力）

参考例句：

• He has come out in front in the study of mathematics.他在数学方面已名列前茅。
• She is working at a difficult problem in mathematics.她在做一道数学难题。