Statistical Report on International Students in China for 2018

2018 Study in China Statistical Report


Introduction

According to the statistics of the Ministry of education of the people's Republic of China, there were 492,185 international students from 196 countries and areas of the world came to study in 1004 colleges and universities distributes over 31 provinces (including autonomous regions and municipalities) in China. The number has increased by 3,013, an increment of 0.62% compared with 2017. (Not include Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan).



I. Statistics by Continents of where the students come from:

Asia: 295,043 (59.95%)
Africa: 81,562 (16.57%)
Europe: 73,618 (14.96%)
America: 35,733 (7.26%)
Oceania: 6,229 (1.27%)

*License of all of the continent pics in this table is under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported.



II. Top 15 Countries of where the students come from:

Korea: 50,600
Thailand: 28,608
Pakistan: 28,023
India: 23,198
USA: 20,996
Russia: 19,239
Indonesia: 15,050
Laos: 14,645
Japan: 14,230
Kazakhstan: 11,784
Vietnam: 11,299
Bangladesh: 10,735
France: 10,695
Mongolia: 10,158
Malaysia: 9,479




III. Top 10 Provinces and Cities in China that Most Foreign Students Chose:

Beijing: 80,786
Shanghai: 61,400
Jiangsu: 45,778
Zhejiang: 38,190
Liaoning: 27,879
Tianjin: 23,691
Guangdong: 22,034
Hubei: 21,371
Yunan: 19,311
Shandong: 19,078



Other places got more than 10,000 international students:

Guangxi: 15,217
Sichuan: 13,990
Heilongjiang: 13,429
Shaanxi: 12,919
Fujian: 10,340




IV: Statistics by Category of Students:

Degree Students: 258,122 (52.44%)

(16,579 students more than 2017, 6.86% increased over the same period of last year)


Postgraduate Students:
85,062

(12.28% increased over the same period of 2017)


Non-degree Students: 234,063




V: Statistics by Sponsor Methods

Chinese Government Scholarship Students: 63,041 (12.81%)
Self-financed Students: 429,144 (87.19%)




Data obtained from: 2018年来华留学统计

 

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