University of the Pacific Rim

[randy_byers]

I'm doing statistics for the International Student Services office, and I'm always fascinated by where our international students come from. We have students from 112 different countries. The top countries are all Asian, except for Canada:

1. People's Republic of China (3324)
2. Republic of Korea (630)
3. Taiwan (ROC) (426)
4. India (354)
5. Hong Kong (209)
6. Indonesia (196)
7. Japan (154)
8. Canada (141)
9. Thailand (123)
10. Vietnam (88)
11. Malaysia (86)

Singapore comes in 13th at 59 students, but what's also interesting is that there are two Middle Eastern countries before we get to our first European country: Saudi Arabia (85) and Iran (55). Then we get to Germany (48) and the UK (46).

We don't seem to draw very strongly from Latin America, with Mexico being the top one at 21 students, and then Chile at 19 and Brazil at 18. Only 27 from Australia and 19 from New Zealand.

Countries that have only sent us one student: Albania, Botswana, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Haiti, Iraq, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Moldova, Mozambique, Rwanda, Syria, Trinidad & Tobago, and Yugoslavia.

Comments

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

Europeans are sometimes not very aware of the farther end of the United States. Too many think that if they've been to NYC, Boston, and DC, they've seen the US.

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

It's also true that the UW is actively recruiting in Asia, far more so than in Europe. I'm curious whether we're recruiting in Indonesia. I was mildly surprised to see that we have more Indonesian students than Japanese students, but that may simply reflect the population differential. Then again, Japan has over twice as many people as South Korea, and we have four times as many Korean students as we do Japanese. There's a similar discrepancy with Taiwan, which has half the population of South Korea.

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

.. and here I am , actively recruiting in Asia this second. Just rather amateurishly..

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

Are you tempting them with haggis and Irn Bru?

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

SAdly not. DAta protection and environmental law. I did buy some tablet in the airport to present to the guy in Hangzhou..