Number of Foreign Students Rises in US (2/2)

There were three percent drops from Indonesia and Kenya, the only African country in the top twenty last year. But there were notable increases from Saudi Arabia, Nepal and Vietnam. The number of Saudi students more than doubled, to nearly eight thousand.

For a sixth year, the University of Southern California in Los Angeles had the most foreign students -- more than seven thousand. Columbia University in New York was second.

Other schools in the top five were New York University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Purdue University.The leading area of study was business and management. That was the choice for eighteen percent of foreign students last year. Second was engineering.

The new report also says more than two hundred twenty thousand Americans studied in other countries. That was during the two thousand five-two thousand six school year. It was a record number, and an increase of eight and a half percent from the year before. But only five and a half percent of them stayed for a full year.

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去年印尼和肯尼亚的留学生数均下降3%，后者是留美学生数排名前20位国家中唯一一个非洲国家。但是，来自沙特阿拉伯、尼泊尔和越南的留学生数明显增加。沙特学生的数量增加了一倍多，有近8000人。

在过去六年中，洛杉矶南加州大学的外国学生数量最多，超过7000人。位于第二位的是纽约的哥伦比亚大学。

外国留学生数排名前五位的大学还有纽约大学、伊利诺斯香槟分校和普度大学。（留学生）主要的学习领域是工商管理。去年，有18%的学生选择了该领域。他们第二选择的是工程学。

新报告也指出超过22万的美国人在其他国家学习。该数字是2005-2006教学年的调查结果。这比前年增长了8.5%，成为新的纪录。但是，其中仅有5.5%的学生会在国外学满一整年。