By Zhengrong Lu, Research & Advisory Services, and Paul Schulmann, Research & Advisory Services, WES DOWNLOAD THE FULL REPORT During the 2013/14 academic year, there were 181,371 international students pursuing master’s degrees in the U.S. This represents an increase of over 9% from the previous…
Alexa Tyler Bordner, Credential Evaluator, WES In December 2013, an Ebola case was confirmed in Guinea that would spur the first major outbreak of the virus in Africa since 2007, spreading by land from Guinea to Liberia and Sierra Leone. Since the outbreak began, over…
By Li Chang, Zhengrong Lu, Research & Advisory Services, WES ACCESS CAREER EXPECTATIONS ON-DEMAND WEBINARAccording to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), nearly two out of five (38%) first-time graduates in OECD countries obtained a tertiary 5A credential (typically bachelor’s degrees and some…
By Alejandro Ortiz, Li Chang, Yuanyuan Fang, Research & Advisory Services, WES International students contributed almost $27 billion dollars to the U.S. economy in 2014, which corresponds to a 12 percent increase versus 2013 ($24 billion). The growth has been driven largely by students from…
By Richard André, WES Research Assistant The poverty of education Two months have passed since the Caribbean nation of Haiti was ravaged by a massive earthquake. The disaster took the lives of more than 250,000 Haitians and caused an estimated $8-$14 billion in physical damage,…