More international students than ever choosing the USA

The USA continues to be the world’s most popular destination for international students, with 8% more joining its universities in 2013/14 than in the previous academic year.

Whilst around a third of the almost 900,000 students who are currently choosing to study abroad in the USA are from China, there are increasing numbers of students from the Middle East – particularly Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Iran – making the journey to North America for their higher education.

Around 275,000 of the international undergraduate and postgraduate students currently in the USA are Chinese, which shows an increase of 17% on last year.

Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Iran show increases of 43%, 21% and 17% respectively, whilst another big increase is in students from Brazil, numbers of which have grown by 22%.

Aside from China, the other countries that sent the most students to the USA were India and South Korea.

According to the Open Doors report, which comes from the Institute of International Education, the number of international students in the USA has grown by a huge 72% since 2000.

The most popular universities for international students in the USA, all of which saw more than 10,000 international students enrol last year, were New York University (NYU), the University of Southern California, the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, and Columbia University.

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The top 10 student cities in the world

The world’s best student cities – based on university rankings, student mix, quality of living, employer activity and affordability – have been revealed by education experts QS.


By Lucy Miller

Faring well in the top ten are Canada, Australia and Europe, all of which have two student cities on the list. Boston is the only US city that makes it into the top ten.

 

There’s no change at the top of the table, with Paris coming out in first place, and it’s quickly followed by Melbourne, which was fifth last year, and London, which drops to third place.

Other UK cities that made it into the top 50 include Edinburgh (26^th), Manchester (29^th) and, for the first time, Coventry at 45^th.

To be included in the ranking each city must have a population of over 250,000, and must be home to at least two ranked institutions in the QS World University Rankings. 116 cities in the world qualify, and 50 have been ranked in the table.

The full top ten is as follows:

2015     2014     City

1          1            Paris

2          5          Melbourne

3          2          London

4          4          Sydney

5          7          Hong Kong

6          8          Boston

7          17         Tokyo

8          9          Montreal

9          13         Toronto

10         14         Seoul

Source: internationalgraduate.net

Smartphones take the fun out of leisure time said Dr. Andrew Lepp of Kent State University

People who use their phones the most are more stressed and anxious during their free time than more casual users. 'The high-frequency cell phone user may not have the leisure skills necessary to creatively fill their free time with intrinsically rewarding activities,' said Dr. Andrew Lepp of Kent State University.

Our smartphones supply endless possibilities for entertainment, but a new study shows they can diminish the quality of users' time away from work or school.

"The high-frequency cell phone user may not have the leisure skills necessary to creatively fill their free time with intrinsically rewarding activities," says Dr. Andrew Lepp of Kent State University. "For such people, the ever-present smartphone may provide an easy, but less satisfying and more stressful, means of filling their time."

Dr. Lepp and his team worked with a participant group of 454 randomly selected undergraduates, quantified each individual's total daily smartphone time and assessed their personalities and notions of leisure.

Separating the students into groups based on their similarities concerning smartphone time investment and personality, the researchers noted three distinct categories were taking shape.

User types included low-use extroverts, low-use introverts and a high-use group who averaged more than 10 hours per day of smartphone time, about 25% of the sample.

This high-use group experienced considerably more stress and anxiety during their leisure time than the other two groups.

For those who can't seem to put down their smartphones, it may not be a question of enjoying them more than others do, the high-use habit could reflect a feeling of obligation to stay connected, according to the researchers.

This obligation can lead to stress, and smartphone-borne stress can spill over into leisure, they say.

On the flip-side, the low-use extrovert group, who used their smartphones on a comparably modest average of three hours per day, expressed very little boredom and distress during leisure time and had a penchant to challenge themselves.

"Being constantly connected to your phone is not likely to enhance your experience of leisure," says Dr. Jian Li of KSU. "On the other hand, disconnecting for short periods of time in order to seek more challenging leisure opportunities is likely to be beneficial."

Source: AFP RELAXNEWS

Kinza Haider from Pakistan to test the waters

PhD student applies Sufi wisdom to ground water

BY MIKE YOUNG

Kinza Haider 

She almost knows the book by heart. On the S-train to the office, during breaks, she opens it at random, reads, and is happy and relaxed. The Sufi Book of Life.

»My friend said I should stop: ‘You have probably read it 500 times’,« she said. »But I am not obsessed. »It is just that every time I open it, it gives me a new message«.

This University Post reporter, uncomfortable with religion, sneers: Has anyone recommended you a psychiatrist?

»The psychiatrist talking to me would need his own psychiatrist!« she laughs.

Blessed with water

Kinza Haider, originally from Rawalpindi in Pakistan, is now doing her PhD at the Department of Geology and Geography.

She is measuring the amount of ground water seeping into Ringkjøbing fjord on the west coast of Denmark. Now and then, she and her colleagues sail out in a rubber dinghy. In one experiment, they stuff pipes into the soft ground at the bottom of the shallow waters.

In another, the researchers measure fjord water temperatures. Ground water is always eight degrees Celsius, so if it seeps, it leaves a temperature imprint.

Coming from a country like Pakistan, just devastated by the Indus River, serene Ringkjøbing fjord experiments seem somehow out of place. But her research is vital, she assures me.

»Europe is blessed with water, and in Denmark you have loads of good quality ground water. Ultimately I would like to bring my work and expertise back home to take care of some of my own country’s problems«.

Karachi for example, Pakistan’s largest city, has huge problems with brackish water coming through the water pumps.

No extremes

Sufism, the other object of Kinza’s interest, is a mystical practice in Islam.

Has living in a non-Muslim country changed your own perspective on being a Muslim?

»I am a progressive Muslim« she says. »I was a strong Muslim before, just like today. But I guess I read more about it now. Basically I think that all religions are variations on the same message,« she says, adding that she has both the Bible and Quran at home.

»You need balance. Many youngsters have too extreme a religion. But every religion, I think, should teach humanity,« she says.

So how about reading something else?

»A friend recommended me to read the Quran. I will start reading it when I find an edition that has the right size for the train«, she laughs.

Source: universitypostdk

Sick of Europe? This is where Danish students want to go

 Sick of Europe? This is where Danish students want to go

You don't always get what you want. This also applies to students enrolled at the University of Copenhagen, who applied for a year abroad at a non-European university. Most of them didn't end up going where they originally applied to. There are limited admissions on most of these popular destinations under the University of Copenhagen exchange agreements.

But here are the top ten priorities, with a little bit about them, so our readers can try and understand what exactly it is that made them so popular:

 

 by Sofie M Hansen, English version by Sebastian Zieler

 

1. University of California, USA

158 applicants, 35 places
University of California has 233,000 students, 60 nobel prize winners on staff, and is the absolute favourite for University of Copenhagen (UCPH) students studying abroad. Berkeley, its oldest campus, is ranked as the fourth best in the world, and the tuition fees are high to match: 1 year's study at Bachelor level costs USD 38,000 for internationals who aren't a part of their exchange programs.

 

2. University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA

81 applicants, 12 places
The University of Wisconsin's high standards of education and its impressive libraries are among the most appealing points to Danish applicants.

 

3. University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

81 applicants, 12 places
Combine its residential colleges, which rival those of Cambridge and Oxford, with its Scandinavian Club's offer of free lunches in exchange for a DKK 15 membership, and you've got yourself an attractive place of study.

 

4. University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

81 applicants, 20 places
Several of UQ's courses have been designed specifically to educate and prep students for working life after university. And Brisbane itself is a coastal city, so water skiing and diving are just some of the ways students can pass the time outside of their studies (... or in some ambitious combination of the two).

 

5. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

79 applicants, 10 places
The class schedule is densely packed, and the mid-term exams are an added and unfamiliar challenge, but the campus life compensates for it with many chances to wind down with a student-run bike repair shop, skiing and a cool Canadian outlook.

 

6. Boston University, USA

57 applicants, 10 places
A UCPH literature student calls it "a US oddball,", citing its European feel. The education, however, is as American as it gets, and as with many US universities, an annual grade is given.

 

7. New York University, USA

54 applicants, 2 places
Only 2 UCPH applicants get to take their classes in downtown Manhattan. Aside from the location, its the dedicated professors, who encourage students to drop by their offices to talk, that draw the Copenhagen students to the university.

 

8. McGill University, Montreal, Canada

52 applicants, 10 places
A UCPH student dubbed it "the Canadian Harvard' for its impressive roster of alumni, and its young, thorough and ambitious students body.

 

9. Arizona State University, USA

44 applicants, 6 places
This university is marked by its American professors engagement and their use of weekly quizzes and attendance numbers to determine grades. And the desert is also an experience in itself.

 

10. University of Sydney, Australia

44 applicants, 10 places
With its Gothic-style main building, the University of Sydney is the university on this list that most resembles Hogwarts. And it even has its own Quidditch team. Really.

So that's it. Luckily there were, and are other options, for those who insist on a year of study abroad outside Europe's Erasmus programmes. Not to put down Erasmus, of course, that has, after all, led to a million babies, according to an EU study and is still by far the most popular exchange programme for both outgoing and incoming students in Copenhagen.

Source: universitypost.dk/article