An officer from the US Embassy in Beijing said on November 20 that the student and exchange visitor visas issued to Chinese nationals in the 2008 fiscal year increased by about 40% year-on-year with the US Administration welcoming more Chinese students to study in the US.
The visa officer said that the US has no limit on the number of foreign students entering the country for study purposes, and it warmly welcomes all Chinese students who meet the relevant requirements to study in the US.
The Administration's visa policy on Chinese students studying in the US will neither be tightened nor loosened. The increase of student visas issued to Chinese nationals in recent years has been mainly due to the increase in numbers and better qualifications of Chinese applicants.
Referring to the impact of the global financial crisis on Chinese students to study in the US, Frank Mok, educational resource coordinator of the American Center for Educational Exchange (ACEE) at the US Embassy in Beijing, said that there will not be any big changes in the tuition fees for American universities in the short term. The scale of admission for international students is normally decided by the universities themselves.
According to the statistics of the US Institute of International Education (IIE), there were 81,127 students from the Chinese mainland studying in the US during the 2007/2008 academic year, second only to the number of students studying in the US from India, an increase of 20% year-on-year. In the meantime, there were 11,064 American students studying in China, an increase of 25.3% year-on-year.
By People's Daily Online
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