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

[kayxh.livejournal.com]

Interesting. Here at Imperial in London our top 10 nationalities are China, France, Malaysia, Singapore, Germany, Italy, Greece, India, Thailand, and Spain, with the USA coming in 16th with 133 students. And an amazing 126 nationalities.

Countries that have sent 1 student: Albania, Argentina, Angola, Bolivia, British Ocean Territory, Cambodia, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Falkand Islands, Fiji, Georgia, Jamaica, Macao, Montenegro, St Kitts and Nevis, San Marino and Somalia.

Lots of Singaporeans and Malaysians (400ish each) because the ties of empire are still strong in those countries, and they send them on sponsored schemes where they have to go back and work for the government for 4+ years afterwards.

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

I was a little surprised at how many Malaysian students we have, because I don't think of Seattle having a strong Malaysian connection. Then again, I work with a woman who is an immigrant from Malaysia. (That office also has a Laotian woman, a Vietnamese woman, and a woman who's from Jamaica or somewhere in the Caribbean.)

The Commonwealth connection makes sense for a British university. Especially one that calls itself Imperial!

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

Even Strathclyde has a lot of Malaysians or at least used to - like he said, they do indeed like going to English speaking/Commonwealth countries and have good language for entry requirements - sadly their currency collapsed a bit back leading to draining of Malays from courses I was teaching at the time - is it ok now I wonder..

I'm not surprised you've only got one Yugoslavian given it doesnt exist anymore :-P I've got a Bosnian so we're evens.

Japanese students notoriously dont go abroad to study (have own decent unis plus language/xenophobia issues) so you;re doing pretty well there :)

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

Do you think the one Yugoslav is a Serbian who hasn't given up the dream?