South Korea topped the list of countries that send students to the United States, with some 110,000 students or 14.9 percent of all the international students in the United States, according to the U.S. government.
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement published a report Thursday, saying, as of Sept. 30, the total number of international students in the United States, who are holders of student F-1 or M-1 visas, numbered 773,077, Hankook Ilbo reported Saturday.
Among them, South Korean students account for 115,852 or 14.9 percent, indicating one in every seven international students in the United States, is a Korean.
South Korea also surpassed other Asian countries such as China and Japan that have also received a huge Confucian influence that attaches a a great importance to education.
According to the report, foreign students in the United States favour business management as their major most, accounting for 15,211, followed by other majors such as engineering and computer science.
The City University of New York (CUNY) was ranked number one for number of international students compared to all other schools in the United States with 12,237, distantly trailed by the University of Southern California, which has 6,695 enrolled international students.
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