Foreign students returning to US, but below pre-COVID levels

A caller survey finds that planetary students are returning to U.S. colleges successful stronger numbers, but the rebound has yet to marque up for past year’s historical declines.

Nationwide, American colleges saw a 4% yearly summation successful planetary students this fall, but that follows a alteration of 15% past year.

That’s according to caller survey results released Monday by the Institute of International Education.

The upturn is amended than galore colleges were forecasting implicit the summertime arsenic the COVID-19 cases surged.

But it reflects continued obstacles arsenic visa backlogs persist and immoderate students amusement reluctance to survey overseas during the pandemic.