The Japanese government plans to attract at least 300,000 foreign students to the country by 2012
About 120,000 foreigners are studying in Japan. Their main suppliers are China (63%), South Korea (13.5%) and Taiwan (3.6%). At the same time, Americans are in sixth place out of ten at 1.5%.
But the Japanese government is not satisfied with this number of foreign students and last year announced plans to attract at least 300,000 foreign students to the country by 2012. To this end, it intends to simplify visa procedures, improve the quality of student life, take measures to increase the number of foreigners studying Japanese, and help foreign graduates of Japanese universities find employment. Thirty of the country's best universities were selected to implement the plan.
Almost all Japanese universities offer one to five postgraduate programs in English in fields such as business, engineering, information technology and agriculture. Also in Tokyo is the campus of the American Temple University.
China shows a very large increase in the number of foreign students. In 2003 their number was almost 88,000, but last year it grew to 144,000. The national composition of students is interesting: South Korea – 33%, Japan – 9.5%, USA – 7.5%. Students from Russia take 6th place (3.7%).
The website China.org.cn provides a list of 34 Chinese universities offering a fairly large number of master's and doctoral programs taught in English.
China's vast education market is very attractive for foreign universities, but strict government regulation does not provide wide opportunities for foreign expansion. British universities Nottingham (University of Nottingham Ningbo), Liverpool (Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University) and Surrey (Surrey International Institute), and American Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins University-Nanjing University Center), New York University (New York University Shanghai) have opened their campuses here. Also, the University of Georgia runs a summer law school in Shanghai and Beijing (Georgia Law Summer Program in China), and the Georgia Institute of Technology runs a Chinese language and engineering program (Georgia Tech – Shanghai Summer Program). Note that the approach to opening Western universities in China is the same as in manufacturing – the educational institution must be equally owned by Chinese and foreign partners.
Significantly, the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) ranked seventh in the Financial Times MBA schools ranking of 2009, ahead of many famous rivals.
South Korea also shows a significant increase in the number of foreign students. Their number nearly tripled in one year: 2006 – 22,624, 2007 – 63,952. The Korean government plans that by 2012, 100,000 mobile students will be studying in the country. By nationality, China leads (51.3%), followed by Japan (12.0%), other Asian countries (7.8%), and the USA (5.2%). Students from Russia take 7th place (2.0%).
Unfortunately, there is no consolidated database of programs taught in English at South Korean universities. The leader in this regard is the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), which plans to switch all undergraduate and postgraduate courses to English-language instruction from 2010. Yonsei University, Korea University, and a number of other private universities, such as Woosong University, offer a small number of bachelor's, master's and doctoral programs in specially created units where the language of instruction is English.
In Singapore, 86,000 foreign students were studying in 2007. The Singapore government developed a special plan to turn it into a global "school home – a hub of international education" and increase the number of mobile students to 150,000 by 2015. The implementation of these plans is facilitated by the fact that English, which the country inherited after colonization by Great Britain, has remained the language of instruction in national schools and universities.
Currently, campuses of top-rated French MBA school INSEAD, the American University of Chicago Graduate School of Business (Chicago GSB), the leading Indian business school S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research Center of Management, New York University Tisch School of the Arts, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas William F. Harrah College of Hotel Administration, several engineering programs from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and the German Institute of Science and Technology are open in Singapore.
Malaysia has also joined the competition for international students. In 2003, the country had just over 30,000 mobile students. Last year, the figure rose to 65,000 students. They are mainly Chinese (34.4%), Indonesians (18.5%) and Bangladeshis (7.0%). The Malaysian government does not want to lag behind other Asian countries and intends to increase the number of foreign students to 100,000 by 2010. Many Malaysian universities have programs taught in English.
Australian universities Curtin (Curtin University of Technology Sarawak Campus), Monash (Monash University Malaysia), Swinburne (Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak Campus), British University of Nottingham (University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus) and the German-Malaysian Institute have their campuses in Malaysia.
The main reason for the influx of foreign students into these countries is not only the interest in the explosively growing Asian world, but also the opportunity to save on tuition and living expenses. Living and studying in Southeast Asian countries turns out to be cheaper than in one's home country or in a more developed state.
Read also the material on the topic: LANDSCAPE OF THE EDUCATIONAL WORLD
Based on materials from CMK “Parta”.