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FLORIDA RANKS 7th HOST STATE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS
Florida keeps its ranking as seventh in the United States for total number of international students (46,720) attending colleges in the 2024-25 academic year. That’s up 4.4 percent from 2023-24. Most students are from India (21.9 percent), China (8.3 percent), followed by Brazil (6.2 percent), Colombia (4.1 percent) and Vietnam (3.1 percent). Florida ranked No. 7 among top host states with California, New York, Texas, Massachusetts, Illinois and Pennsylvania in the lead.
No Florida university made it into the top 20 national ranking for number of international students. However, University of South Florida in Tampa continues to be the leader in the Sunshine State with the highest number of international students at 7,268. UF-Gainesville came in at No. 2 with 6,703 students. Florida International University is third with 4,808 students, followed by University of Central Florida at 3,504 students and Florida State University with 2,966 students.
According to the Open Doors yearly report, published by the not-for-profit Institute of International Education, the total number of international students at U.S. universities increased by 4.5 percent to 1,177,766. Also, the number of Indian students in the U.S. in 2024-25 is up 9.5 percent compared to the previous year.
Surpassing China, India sent 363,019 students, which had a decline of 4.1 percent to 265,919 students. In South Asia, Nepal sent 24,890, Bangladesh dispatched 20,156 students and Pakistan sent 13,165 students.
Currently, the leading host institutions for international students are New York University (27,532), Northeastern University in Boston with 22,465, Columbia University (20,733), Arizona State University-Immersion campus (20,368) and University of Southern California (17,884).
Italy, Spain, United Kingdom, France and Japan remaining the leading host countries for U.S. students studying abroad.
KHAAS BAAT LAUNCHES ANNUAL SPONSOR DRIVE
By NITISH S. RELE and SHEPHALI J. RELE
After completing our 21-year anniversary last month, we launched an annual sponsor drive to secure funds to cover production costs. Since its inception, Khaas Baat has been mailed free to subscribers around the state with only a handful of paid subscribers in the past few years. We are proud that during the pandemic we continued publishing regularly. In fact, we haven’t skipped an issue since we began printing in August 2004. Also, the entire print version of the newspaper can be found online. Since ad revenues alone do not cover our monthly production costs (printing, design, mailing), we are in need of corporate or private sponsors. Your backing will allow us to continue to publish Khaas Baat as a high-quality newspaper proudly serving our community.
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