Published by the Institute of International Education in partnership with the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, the report reveals that the number of Honduran students enrolled in U.S. institutions of higher education increased by 16% this year, reaching a record of 1,756 — more than the number of students from Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Belize combined.
The number of Honduran students is highest in the U.S. states of Texas, Florida, New York, Georgia and Louisiana.
In recent years, scholarship programs in several Latin American countries have led their students to pursue STEM (Science, Technology, engineering cpd courses, and Math) education in the United States. Thanks to scholarship programs, there were 8% more students from Latin America and the Caribbean this year.
The Brazilian government’s Scientific Mobility Program, for example, is financing the higher education of many Brazilians in the United States. This year more than 13,000 Brazilian students have moved into U.S. campuses, an increase of 22%.
The United States welcomes more foreign students every year than any other country in the world and, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce, international students’ spending contributed more than US$27 billion to the U.S. economy in 2013.
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