Universities should attract more foreign students

Education experts say that more universities in Vietnam should open programmes to foreign students as demand for study-abroad courses has increased, reports Viet Nam News.

At the American Abroad Conference 2018 held recently in Ho Chi Minh City, Edwina Rowell, adjunct professor of Campbellsville University in the United States, said that 325,229 US students studied abroad for academic credit in the 2016-17 academic year, representing 11.1% of all US college and university students, citing data from an Open Doors 2017 study. Of these, 11% studied in Asia, including in Vietnam.

Vietnam is becoming a more popular destination for American students, according to Open Doors. In the 2016-17 academic year, the country welcomed 1,012 students from the US. Megan Ames, international outreach and recruitment specialist at the Institute of International Education, said the number had increased from 922 in the 2014-15 academic year. Universities should change their perceptions of studying abroad, and realise that every student expects study abroad to be an “essential part of a university education”, she said.
Full report on the Viet Nam News site