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Facts & Figures
International students contributed US$20.23 billion to the US economy in 2010-11. (NAFSA)
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The language travel sector saw 2 million arrivals worldwide in 2010, nearly three quarters of which were for English-language studies in major destination countries. (WYSE Travel Confederation)
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Subjects international students take while in the US: Business (22%), Engineering (19%), Science (18%). (IIE Open Doors)
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The number of Taiwanese with a college, university or other type of higher education degree has increased every year to 39% of the population in 2009, according to the Ministry of the Interior. (universityworldnews.com)
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Forrester Research predicts that in 2014, 1.3 billion people in China will have mobile devices, and 75% of them will access the internet via their mobile devices.
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44% of prospective students in the US have “liked” a college on a social network; 57% watch videos created by the college, and 53% read posts about the college via social media. (FastWeb)
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14% of prospective students in the US have viewed a college website via their mobile device; 62% of them wanted to access a college’s social media properties and 64% to watch a college’s videos. (Noel-Levitz)
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