Chinese students now prefer to study in UK to USA19 Aug 2019 09:37
The Times reports today that Chinese students are looking to study in the UK rather than the USA due to Trump (and other factors) - and they prefer purpose-built accommodation to house-shares:
Https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/trumps-trade-war-sends-chinese-students-to-british-universities-5hfqqprxt
Extract:
"A record number of Chinese students will take up places at British universities this autumn as President Trump’s trade war lessens the appetite for studying in the United States.
Some 7,740 Chinese students are due to arrive on campuses across the UK, up from 5,930 last year and 3,480 a decade ago. More than 363,000 Chinese students attended US universities in the 2017-18 academic year but the number of new students enrolling this autumn is expected to fall.....
.....Instead Mr Li, who has spent two years at Birmingham University through an exchange programme, will enrol at Cambridge to take his master’s in economics. That Cambridge has a master’s programme, in contrast to many elite American schools that would have restricted him to a doctorate, also influenced his decision to stay in Britain.....
...“My parents strongly opposed my plan to go to the States and study. They were worried I could be thrown into a jail with a frame-up spying charge by the US government,” Mr Zhang said. “More students are choosing the UK after they feel they are no longer welcomed by the United States.”
Mr Li and Mr Zhang were among the successful candidates drawn from 19,760 applicants nationally, up from 15,240 last year.
China is already the biggest source of international students at universities in Britain. In 2007-08 there were 43,530 Chinese students in the UK. Ten years later the total went up to 106,530, of which 60,460 were postgraduate students and 46,070 undergraduates. Manchester is among the most popular destinations, with 5,000 Chinese students out of a total student population of just over 40,000.
In many ways Chinese students are ideal for British universities. They pay full tuition fees, rather than the capped £9,250 a year paid by Britons, and are generally considered to be hardworking and less prone to excessive drinking than their British counterparts. However, they also have a reputation for isolating themselves from other students, often choosing purpose-built blocks of flats over house-shares.
British universities are desperate to recruit Chinese students and most organise marketing trips every year. Bristol, the London School of Economics, Essex, Sussex and University College London all hold graduation ceremonies in China so that students can avoid the cost of flying back to Britain to pick up their degrees.
One-year graduate programmes and the fall in the value of the pound since the Brexit vote have also made Britain more affordable than the US. “The decisions are mostly made by parents,” Min Yuhan, a Chinese student in California, told China Daily. “Aside from the safety issues, visa hassles and s
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