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More Chinese Students Look to U.s. For Grad School
Credit: China Daily
For Duan Can, a graduate in electronic engineering from the Beijing Institute of Technology, a half year of work on an graduate-school application has brought offers to attend three leading U.S. universities. She received full scholarships to attend the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and the University of Florida.
Agencies that help Chinese study overseas are seeing leading U.S. universities make a record number of admission offers for doctorate programs this year. "We are so surprised and happy to see so many admission offers pouring in from Stanford University, New York University and Columbia University," says Zhang Meng, senior manager of CACDIY International.
On Aug 16, the Council of Graduate Schools, a U.S. organization that promotes graduate education and research, released the International Graduate Admissions Survey, which looks at admissions trends. It found that the number of Chinese applicants to U.S. graduate schools increased by 21 percent from this past school year and the number of offers being made to prospective Chinese students increased by 23 percent. This is the sixth year in a row that those percentages have increased by double digits, the report said.
From China Daily
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