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Facts & Figures
600,000 students go to the UK each year to learn English, which contributes GBP 2 billion to the UK economy. (British Council)
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International students contributed US $22.7 billion to the US economy in 2011-12. (IIE Open Doors)
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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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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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