{"id":14812,"date":"2012-11-12T09:27:26","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T14:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=14812"},"modified":"2012-11-19T16:48:28","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T21:48:28","slug":"where-floridas-foreign-college-students-come-from-how-much-they-spend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/11\/12\/where-floridas-foreign-college-students-come-from-how-much-they-spend\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Florida’s Foreign College Students Come From, How Much They Spend"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Florida ranks seventh in the country for the number of foreign students enrolled in state colleges and universities.<\/p><\/div>\n

Saudi Arabia and South Korea are among the top 5 leading places of origin for international college and university students in Florida.<\/p>\n

That’s according to the Institute for International Education, which released its Open Doors fact sheet today.<\/p>\n

It reports that during the 2011-12 school year, 32,567 students from other countries enrolled for the first time in a Florida college or university —\u00a0a 9.6 percent increase from the year before.<\/p>\n

Florida ranks seventh in the country for the number of foreign college students. California ranks first.<\/p>\n

Leading places of origin for foreign college students in the state:<\/strong><\/p>\n

China 16.2%
\nIndia 11%
\nVenezuela 7.3%
\nSaudi Arabia 7.3%
\nSouth Korea 4.1%<\/p>\n

It’s estimated those students spend about $935.7 million dollars in Florida on tuition, housing and cost of living expenses, which according to the Open Doors website is calculated in the following way:<\/p>\n

The economic impact of international students in each state\u2014produced by\u00a0NAFSA: Association of International Educators<\/a>\u2014based on enrollment data from the Institute of International Education’s Open Doors report, tuition figures from Wintergreen Orchard House, living expenses calculated from\u00a0Wintergreen Orchard House<\/a>figures, and analysis of the data by Jason Baumgartner at Indiana University \u2013 Bloomington’s Office of International Services.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Florida schools with the highest number of foreign students:<\/strong><\/p>\n

University of Florida Gainesville – 5,588
\nFlorida International University Miami – 2,938
\nUniversity of Miami Miami – 2,530
\nUniversity of South Florida Tampa – 2,386
\nUniversity of Central Florida Orlando – \u00a02,101<\/p>\n

The University of Florida was among the top 20 schools in the country for hosting international students. UF came in at 16th place, just above Harvard University.<\/p>\n

During the 2009-10 school year there were 8,195 American Florida students in colleges abroad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saudi Arabia and South Korea are among the top 5 leading places of origin for international college and university students in Florida. That’s according to the Institute for International Education, which released its Open Doors fact sheet today. It reports that during the 2011-12 school year, 32,567 students from other countries enrolled for the first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":14824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[581,737,764],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14812"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14832,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14812\/revisions\/14832"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}