Friday, January 27, 2012

The favorite countries for students

Figures in the diagram mean students from abroad studying in a given country (inbound mobile students). The English-speaking countries hold the first three places in the list.



Source - UNESCO

Top 10 countries in the number of outbound mobile students

Figures in the diagram mean students from a given country studying abroad (outbound mobile students)



Source - UNESCO

The main destinations of students from Eastern Europe and Central Asia

 

Education is getting more and more globalized in our world. Tertiary education is just the case. If you live in Central and Eastern Europe or maybe in Central Asia, take a look which countries are the most mobile in terms of tertiary education.

Russia and Kazakhstan are two countries from the region which present in the world top 10 list in terms of  number of students studying abroad. http://globalizationtimes.blogspot.com/2012/01/top-10-countries-in-mobility-of.html

Czech Republic and Kyrgystan are the only evident net recipients of foreign students in the region of Central/Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Unfortunately, other countries of the region have a negative balance of students' exchange.

The below listed diagrams highlight eleven leading "exporters" of foreign students. The figures in the diagrams mean the numbers of local students leaving their country for education abroad.


Russia - 46 964.





Kazakhstan - 46 142.



Turkey -  42 725.



Poland - 32 991.




Ukraine - 32 882.




Belarus - 30 396.




Slovakia  - 28 259.

Uzbekistan - 26 318.


Romania - 23 548.




Bulgaria - 23 309.




Albania - 20 512.


Source - UNESCO