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SAN ANTONIO, Nov. 16 (UPI) -- A number of colleges across the United States have begun courting foreign students in an attempt to keep up strong enrollment, education officials said.
Tanuja Singh said after becoming dean of St. Mary's University's Master of Business Administration program, she began recruiting foreign students to attend her San Antonio school, the San Antonio Express-News said Sunday.
"If we want to be competitive, we must look at international growth opportunities," she said.
The Institute of International Education estimates 671,616 international students were studying in the United States in 2008-2009, representing an 8 percent increase from the prior year.
The Express-News said among the homelands of those students were South Korea, India, China, Canada and Japan.
"Newly developed countries realize they need more highly trained people than they can produce in their own graduate schools," the institute's chief operating officer, Peggy Blumenthal, said.
The U.S. Department of Commerce estimates that thanks to tuition and living expenses, international students are worth nearly $18 billion to the U.S. economy.
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