Number of BD students in US increases by 4.9pc

The number of students from Bangladesh in the United States (US) has increased by 4.9 per cent in the last school year, beating the international average increase of 1.5 per cent, reports BSS.

According to the 2018 'Open Doors Report on International Educational Exchange', Bangladesh now ranks the 24th in the world for countries sending students to the United States for higher education and ranks tenth in the world for the number of students studying at the graduate level, an official release said. The number of Bangladeshi students studying in the United States has increased by 58.4 per cent over the past six years.

For the past three years, US colleges and universities hosted more than one million international students, reaching a record high of 1.09 million this school year.

This also marks the twelfth consecutive year of continued expansion of the total number of international students in US higher education, the release added.

'Education USA advising services' and reference materials are available at locations across the country, including the American Centre at US Embassy Dhaka, located in Baridhara, and Dhanmondi.