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

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

THis is pretty much exactly why I am here. Lots of Oz unis, some US unis and one or 2 UK unis (Nottingham is one I know of) have opened Chinese campuses. Very lucrative and much admired by UK Tory plc etc. Strathclyde wants in on this and this is when I discovered that raher than being a good citizen by coming out to entertain the locals, my entire dept now hated me (slight overstatement)cos they view links with China as link to institutional breach of human rts. I d think frankly given almost every world class uni in world has links with China now (money talks!), they really won;t give a shit if Strathclyde cold shoulders them :)

Sorry I live and breath this stuff..

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

I find it quite fascinating myself!

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

I like knowing about it but as an overall view of how the world works vs idealised pursuit of knowldge it's a bit depressing..

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

Last datum and then you can work out EVERYTHING in your stats: non Anglo/Commonwealth countries insecure about English language skills mostly go to countries speaking their own language - so Lat Americans go to Spain/Italy not US or UK (tho this is changing -current Brazilian generation eg speaks v good English cos of US tv/Internet) which is why you aint got them, and why we still get less Spaniards than Greeks (who really have nowhere else to go that speaks their language except Melbourne :)even tho until recently youth unemployment was as catastrophic in Spain as Greece.

Also I'm curious about your quite high Arab intake. We hear we (UK) do well on them because they fear anti Islamic prejudice in US. Though it may well be just as bad in UK now..

Why Imperial has a high French intake is a true mystery to me tho! Maybe nowhere teaches science very well in FRance? Or maybe they're all exchange (one year or one term) studnts. It is a dark art..

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure why we have such a large Middle Eastern population here either. (We also have 38 from Turkey.) Possibly our school of International Studies has some kind of outreach program. One of the members of the transitional government of Libya, Ali Tarhouni, taught here in the business school and was very outspoken during the civil war over there.