The Chinese are big believers in the value of an American education. The number of students from China surged a whopping 23 percent in 2010-2011 to 157,558 – a jump of nearly 30,000 from the year before. That means more than 1 in 5 foreign students in the US is from China.
Intent perhaps on solving the mystery of global business dominance by American companies such as Apple, Microsoft, and Boeing, more than one-quarter of Chinese students in the US are pursuing studies in business and management. Even so, that concentration is still less than the percentage of Vietnamese, Indonesian, and French foreign students in business and management studies. Coming in a close second for Chinese students are engineering and related fields.