Chile
University of Phoenix Parent Buys Chilean University
Apollo Group Inc., the parent company of the University of Phoenix, announced in February that it is set to buy a 3,000-student university in Santiago, Chile’s capital, for as much as US$49 million.
The purchase will be the first for Apollo Global, a subsidiary formed in October with the Carlyle Group, a private-equity fund. Apollo said it would pay $40 million for the University of Arts, Sciences, and Communication, and up to $9 million more after four years, depending on the institution’s earnings. The university was founded in 1989 and offers 18 bachelor’s and two master’s programs. In 2004 it became the first in Chile to offer a fully online undergraduate program.
- Bizjournals
February 20, 2008
United States
Number of Foreign Graduate Students in Engineering and Technology Increases Significantly
The number of new enrollments among foreign students in graduate science and engineering programs has increased year on year by 16 percent in 2006, according to the results of a National Science Foundation survey released in February. The number of students in all years of those programs grew by 1.7 percent in 2006.
The NSF's "Survey of Graduate Students and Postdoctorates in Science and Engineering" found that the increase in first-time enrollments among all students in these programs was 6 percent.
- National Science Foundation
January 2008
Study: U.S. Losing Ground to Rivals in Foreign-Student Market
While the U.S. faces no imminent threat of losing its position as the number one destination for internationally mobile students, it is facing increasing competition from its traditional rivals such as the United Kingdom and Australia, in addition to emerging destinations such as Malaysia, Singapore and China, according to a survey of 11,000 students from 143 countries.
The results of the StudentPulse survey by U.K.-based i-graduate shows that international students have a growing number of destination choices. The survey questioned students about why they were seeking to study overseas and which factors they considered when choosing where to study. Not only did the study find that the US was losing ground to the UK, but that it was losing more ground than the UK to emerging smaller competitors, who collectively are increasing their share of international enrollments.
Security concerns and visa issues were the chief deterrents for students who might otherwise have come to the US, while quality continues to be the biggest pull. More than 50 percent of the respondents were from China and India. The survey's findings reinforce some of the results of a larger recent survey of 28,000 students, which found that the perceived quality of foreign academic programs was a crucial factor for students when deciding where to study abroad.
- i-graduate
January 31, 2008
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