Record number of Chinese students flock to US colleges

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CSMonitor

[quote]The recession is affecting some American and foreign students’ plans to study abroad – but not, apparently, those of the Chinese.

Last year, nearly 130,000 Chinese students studied in the US – a record number, and a 30 percent increase from the year before.

That Chinese desire for a US education also helped drive an overall increase in foreign students studying here, resulting in a record high of 690,923, despite declines from many countries, according to the Institute of International Education’s (IIE) annual Open Doors report, released Monday.

“There’s a growing middle class in China … that wants to find the best education for their children, and they have a lot of resources to pour into their one child,â€