International Student Blog

A topic that was brought up in our international student forums a while ago titled “Sweden - Seriously Free”, was the subject of obtaining an international education in Sweden and whether this was in fact free. After a lot of talking back and forth, it was discovered that for non-EU international students there are in fact no fees to study as an international student at Universities in Sweden.

However, that is all about to change if the Swedish government has their way and a bill is going to be put before the Swedish parliament this fall to discuss and implement fees for international students. But, do not worry if you are planning to studying this year - the bill (if it comes into law) will not come into effect until 2010.

For more information about this please see:
http://www.regeringen.se/sb/d/10403/a/107816

If you cannot read Swedish, please try the online website translator at:
http://www.systran.co.uk/

Some great news that has just been released from the Annual Open Doors report is that International Student enrollments saw a 3% increase this past year to a new total of 582,984. This increase is the first significant increase in the number of international students since the 2001/ 2002 year - and shows that the USA is moving forward and rebounding after a few troublesome years.

Even better news is the report of a 10% increase in the number of new students that are enrolled compared with last year.

As for where the students are coming from, Asia is still the largest sender of students to the USA with a share of 59% of total enrollment (up 5%), and with an increase of 25% in the last year, the Middle East is one of the fastest growing sectors for sending to the USA.

For US Students Studying Abroad, this has seen an increase also up 8% to 223,534.

For more information about Studying in the USA, or Studying Abroad please see our website and be sure to check out the full details on the Open Doors Website.

We are launching a new resource for students in the Study Abroad Blog. As you probably know, the winner of our Annual Travel Contest is planning to use his winnings to fund his study in Spain, and we are all going to be able to follow him as he pursues his MBA.

You can view the blog by visiting:
http://www.internationalstudent.com/studyabroad/blog/

So please check it out and be sure to subscribe to the RSS Feed to get your daily updates! You can also visit all our other RSS Feeds by visiting the International Student RSS Feeds pages.

We are also planning to add more international student bloggers to this - so if you want to help out and blog about your time abroad, let us know!

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