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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Foreign students&rsquo; applications to get admission in American Graduate School are up 9 percent over last year, with much of the increase powered by a double-digit growth in applications from prospective Chinese students, according to a report released today by the Council of Graduate Schools.</span></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;">Applications from India and South Korea, meanwhile, saw renewed growth after go off last year. The three countries send the largest numbers of international students to the United States.</span></span></p>
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mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;"><span style="font-size: small;">The report's author, Nathan E. Bell, called the outcomes &quot;encouraging,&quot; saying they suggest continued strong interest around the world in American graduate education, despite increased global competition for top students. Application figures tend to exaggerate actual enrollment trends because prospective students may apply to multiple universities, but Mr. Bell, who is director of research and policy analysis at the graduate-schools group, said he expects international enrollments this fall to climb between 3 and 6 percent.</span></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;">Foreign-student enrollments grew 3 percent in fall 2010. Particularly promising are larger numbers of applicants this spring from India and South Korea, Mr. Bell said. Applications from prospective Indian students are up 7 percent. Last year, applications from India held steady, increasing just 1 percent, after declining by 12 percent the previous year.</span></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;">Similarly, the numbers of applications from South Korea were flat in 2010 and fell 9 percent in 2009, during the height of the global recession. This year, Korean applications rose 2 percent. Chinese applications continue to increase vigorously, increasing 18 percent this year. This is the sixth successive year of double-digit growth in applications from China.</span></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;">Applications from the Middle East and Turkey also rose, by 12 percent over 2010. The council tracks students collectively from that region because of its geopolitical importance.</span></span></p>
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line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;">Over all, three-quarters of American graduate programs reported an uptick in overseas applicants from last year to this. Some 230 institutions responded to the survey, which was conducted between late January and early March. Together, those universities account for about 60 percent of all international graduate students in the United States.</span></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;">Both public and private universities experienced a surge in foreign applicants, of 9 percent and 11 percent respectively. </span>&nbsp;  </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;">Applications from China shot up 26 percent at the 10 largest schools but rose only 12 percent at those outside the top 100.</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;">South Korean applications, however, increased more among institutions that graduate smaller numbers of international students.</span></span> <span style="font-size: small;">  </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;">Applications were up across the five most popular fields of study, with the largest gains, of 12 percent, in engineering and physical- and earth-sciences programs.</span></span></p>
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