The Mobile International Student

Scott Jaschik of Inside Higher Ed writes about a recent study that takes a broad look at who is getting students from which other countries, and vice versa. The study he reports on is published by The Observatory On Borderless Higher Education and is titled "International Student Mobility: Trends and Patterns," but is only available in its entirety to subscribers. From Jaschik's article:

The study examined trends in various countries’ top sources of foreign students over the last 10 years, grouping the countries into various categories, and created a grid of relative advantages. The dominant position of the United States remains clear — it continues to attract more students from other countries than anyplace else does. But the report identifies weaknesses for American colleges, as well as both strengths and weaknesses for some of the competitors to the United States, including some whose raw numbers have attracted attention of American educators.