March 7, 2011

Higher Education Goes Global

Global universities are “reshaping the world” as many ambitious students demand an education that transcends geographic boundaries. A special report on global leaders in The Economist finds that the most popular destination is the English-speaking world, led by the United States which hosts 19% of the world’s mobile students. French and German universities are also popular. In disciplines such as computing and economics, physics, and mathematics, most postgraduates at American universities are foreign.