An Inside Higher Ed article, “Ups and Downs in Grad Admissions,” reports that American graduate school admissions offers to international applicants increased 3% in the last year. Last year U.S. graduate schools extended 1% fewer international offers.
The upward trend is attributed mostly to the increase in admissions offers made to China, which alone experienced a 16% increase in offers. Top graduate programs reportedly admitted 30% more Chinese grad students this year compared to last.
More findings (all of which come from the Council of Graduate Schools report) include:
- India and South Korea experienced minor decreases in admissions offers, which is an improvement compared to last year’s 14% drop for both countries.
- International applications as a whole went up 9%, bringing the total number of international applicants to a higher level than it’s been since 2003.
- Large graduate schools saw the largest increase in international applications and in international offers. Ohio State University, for example, saw a 15% increase in international applications and a 19% increase in admissions offers, bringing the total number of international graduate students to a quarter of the grad population.
- American grad school applications went up 9% in the last year. Offers at M.A. programs went down 6%. Offers at Ph.D. programs remained flat.
[Note: According to the Inside Higher Ed article, figures are not final. Some graduate programs will continue their admissions process through the end of the summer.]
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