IIE Open Doors report 2018

Annually, the Open Doors report published by the Institute of International Education (IIE) on International Education exchange provides many useful and relevant information on the numbers of international students studying in the United States in the 2017/18 academic year, and the numbers of U.S. students studying abroad for academic credit in 2016/17. The IIE’s Open Doors report has been a great resource in detecting trends as well as shifts in American Higher Education.

The academic year 2017/2018 has seen an overall increase of 1.5 % of international students on American campuses, a number that has been steadily raised for many years. Overall, international students make up for 5.5 % of all university students in the United States – a number that is also heavily connected to the monetary contribution of international students to the U.S. economy. According to the 2018 open Doors report, the 2017 contribution to the United States economy by international students amounts to $42.4 billion USD which amounts to a considerable economy branch within the U.S. economy.