Keisha McNeil
November 12, 2010
3:25 pm
According to the Institute of International Education, China's students has filled American graduate schools. Its undergraduate now represents the fastest growing group of international students. In 2008-2009, more than 28,000 students were studying in the United States. This is an 8,000 student increase from eight years ago. Students are not just attended four years nationally known university, but also regional, state schools, and even community colleges. A majority of these students have to pay for their tuition because international students are not eligible for government finical aid. Many of China's students come from middle-class family's who parents have to save money for many years to get their child in a top school. Parents are just hoping and wishing that their child can have an opportunity or an advantage in a competitive job market which is made more so by the surge of college graduates in China. China has definitely double their numbers of higher education institutes. More than 60 percent of their high school graduates attend a university in China. This type of huge surge has left millions of students with diplomas unable to find white-collar work in a country still so heavily reliant on low-paying manufacturing.
While reading this article, I feel that China's students will do what every it takes to invest in a good quality education to give them an opportunity to improve themselves in such a competitive job market. Getting an education in America can have more benefits than just having an advantage in the work force in China when these students return home. It gives these students a chance to gain fluency in speaking English, develop real world working skills (which they do not get to encounter in China), and with these benefits maybe even land a position with a multinational corporation. Being able to attend school in America, for China's students, also gives them an opportunity to receive and gain knowledge of different culture backgrounds which could also be an advantage in a corporation or even in the workforce.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/07/education/07china-t.html?pagewanted=5&ref=education
1 comment:
It could be expected that the number of Chinese students to increase in the United States. China has a huge population and also there is a strong tie at least in economy that let this happened. There is possibility that the minimum wage in China increase in near future because of large population of university students, 60% of high school students attend university.
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