China set to be major ‘importer’ of international students
- Oliver Lui
- Aug 16, 2018
- 2 min read
The higher-education industry in Canada has benefited tremendously in the last decade from the boom in international students worldwide – especially students from China.
But that trend is unlikely to be sustained in the current model as colleges in traditionally non-English-speaking nations, including China, are set to take up more market share in the next decade.
According to the Canadian Bureau for International Education, 494,525 international students were studying in Canada last year, with China (28%) and India (25%) dominating the top spots in the rankings. Canada isn’t alone in benefiting from the wave of international students from Asia in the last few years; statistics show the total number of international students worldwide increased from 3.1 million in 2007 to 4.6 million in 2015, and about 75% of the group went to schools in high-income, industrialized countries like the United States, Great Britain and Australia.
But according to a Times Higher Education World University Rankings report, experts predict China will be hosting more than 500,000 international students by 2020.
In 2015, Beijing launched its Double First Class initiative for its top universities, throwing significant funds behind making Chinese universities and their intra-university disciplines into global leaders in their fields by 2050.
BCCIE executive director Randall Martin said some of that effort is already being reflected in an increasing number of students from Asia, Europe and Africa choosing China as an educational destination. China is now also the third most popular destination in the world for students to go.
Part of the attraction for international students to an up-and-coming destination like China is price. Those with low resources and ambition will be influenced by things like cheaper tuition.
The Times Higher Education school rankings report noted that groups like the China Scholarship Council have made “large pots of scholarship money available” on top of “extremely attractive” tuition costs.
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