International Students: The Most Popular Fields of Study

News alert! We have just received our annual report from the International Review. Each year this publication puts out a statistical report on international student enrollments in various major fields of study.

This year it was no surprise to find that once again the field of engineering had top enrollments with business and management in second place. In third and fourth places are the fields of natural sciences and social sciences. In order, the next four choices are humanities, education, math and computer science, and arts. The last two of the top ten are health professions and agriculture.

The report reveals some interesting changes in major field enrollments last year. Engineering, long a very popular field of study for international students, reached a new height. Enrollment figures increased from 22 percent to nearly 29 percent. Similar increases are found in business and management, which moved up from just over 14 percent to 16 and a half, and math and computer science, up from 3 and a half percent to 5 and a half percent.

b) Fill the spaces with the names of the fields of study, using the information given above.

The percentage enrollments for the top ten fields are as follows:

First: _______ at 28.8 percent. Sixth: ______at 5.6 percent.

Second: _______at 16.5 percent. Seventh: ____at 5.5 percent.

Third: _______ at 9.2 percent. Eighth: _____ at 5.3 percent.

Fourth: _____at 8.9 percent. Ninth: _______ at 4.7 percent.

Fifth: ______at 5.7 percent. Tenth: ________at 3.3 percent.

Exercise 8 Finish the interview.

A. Good afternoon, Mr. French. And welcome to Two-Minute News and Interviews. F1_____________________	a) This year percentage of international students is well over 7 percent of a total university enrolment of just over 36,000
A. First of all, how many international students are enrolled at the university this year? F2_____________________	b) The top four fields are engineering,business administration, law and medicine.
A. Now that’s a lot of students! Are most of them undergraduates? F3_____________________	c) Thank you. I’m very pleased to be here.
A. That surprises me! I expected more undergraduates. What are the most popular fields of study? F4_____________________	d) No, most of them are graduate students – probably 85 to 90 percent.
A. And the next four fields... what are they? F5___________________	e) I’m happy to say that we just received our reports from the International Office and we have exactly 2,501 international students enrolled this fall.
A. Are most of students men or women, or are they divided fairly equally? F6_____________________	f) The next four most popular fields are dentistry, physics, chemistry, and mathematics.
A. Is that what you usually expect? F7_____________________	g) Yes, although enrollments of international women students have risen steadily over the last five years.
A. Next question. What percentage of total university enrollments are international students? F8_____________________	h) Well, in fact, about 23 percent of the international students are women and 77 percent are men.
A. What is the “country count” for international students? F9_____________________	i) Well, that depends. Some of them speak only a little English when they come, but many of them are really quite fluent already.
A. Interesting. One final question – do most of the students speak English when they come, or do they learn it after they get here? F10____________________	j) Overall, we have students from 101 countries. Taiwan takes top honors with 364 students. Korea is next with 341, followed by the Peope’s Republic of China with 214, India with 159, Canada with 114, and Japan with 112.
A. Thank you very much, Mr. French, for that interesting report.

Exercise 9 Choose the right word for each sentence:

degree, lack, advice, find out, further, decide, indicate, consists, according, enrolled, assumes, enroll, complete, evaluated, strict, change, academic

1 New students must_____ for classes before term begins.

2 I'm going to_____ all I can about the subject because I need this information.

3 This course _____ no previous knowledge of the subject.

4 Sean asked his teacher's_______ about going to university.

5 What are you going to do when you _______ school?

6 Have you_____ for any evening classes next term?

7 Viola took her_____ at Cambridge University.

8 In some countries, students are selected_______ to their current level of academic attainment.

9 Your progress will be______ in three months' time.

10 Our group____ of twelve students.

11 Some schools have very_______ rules of behavior which must be obeyed.

12 It was very difficult for the examiner to________ what recommendations he should make.

13 Please inform the college secretary if you_________ your address.

14 The classes were closed because of_________ of interest.

15 This school has the highest ____ standards in our town.

16 We need_____ information before we can decide which courses to choose.

17 Please___ clearly which courses you want to take.

Exercise 10 Read the text about Sumy State University.

Find answers to the following questions:

1 When was the institution founded?

2 How long did it function as a division of Kharkiv Polytechnical Institute?

3 When did it become an independent school?

4 How was the institution called in 1991?

5 When did it become a classical university?

6 How many students study here?

7 How can you describe the University faculty?

Sumy State University takes its founding date as 1948. In 1966 the institution was incorporated as the Sumy Division of Kharkiv Polytechnical Institute. In 1990 the school, which had already become a modern educational complex with a variety of engineering specialities, gained its independence from Kharkiv Polytechnical Institute by state legislative action and began operating as Sumy Institute of Physics and Technology. In August 1993 the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine authorized that the name of the institution be changed to Sumy State University, effective September 1, 1993.

The University provides a variety of courses across Mechanical Engineering, Electronics, Mathematics, Information Science, Journalism, Linguistics, Material Science, Medicine, Law, Economics, Business and Management, Environmental Science, Power Engineering, etc. to around 20000 Ukrainian and foreign students. About two and a half thousand faculty (teachers) and staff work in various divisions, departments and chairs. Among them there are about 60 Professors, 400Associate Professors, nearly 30 Academicians, Corresponding Members of Academies, Honoured Scientists and Educationalists, etc.

Among the University alumni there are a lot of well-known scientists, top managers and leading specialists of industrial enterprises, research and educational institutions, native and foreign firms, banks, etc.

Sumy State University, which is a member of a number of international educational and scientific organizations, was ranked high among the institutions of higher learning by the All-Ukrainian Special Rating Programme “St. Sophia of Kyiv” and the International Academic Rating Programme of Popularity and Quality “Zolota Fortuna”.

Exercise 12 Write a letter to your friend about your studies.

Exercise 13 Tell about your University using the given tables:

FIELDS OF STUDY
DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES:
Law	Journalism	Linguistics
DEPARTMENT OF ENGINEERING
Engineering Mechanics Mechanical Engineering; Technology; Metalcutting Machines and Systems;Tool Manufacturing; Hydraulic and Pneumatic Machines; Equipment for Chemical Enginnering and Civil Engineering	Materials Engineering	Materials Engineering Compressors, Pneumatic and Vacuum Technique; Refrigerating Equipment	Ecology	Computer Science Computer-Aided Design Systems
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND MECHANICS
Applied Mathematics	Information Science	Mechanics (Dynamics and Durability)
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY
Electronic Engineering Electronic Instruments and Devices; Electronic Systems; Physical and Biomedical Electronics	Electrical Engineering Electrotechnical Systems of Power Consumption	Computer Systems, Automation and Control Control and Automation Systems
DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT
Economics and Entrepreneurship Finance, Economics of Manufacturing Systems, Marketing	Management
DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE
INSTITUTE OF CORRESPONDENCE, DISTANCE AND PART-TIME EDUCATION
DEPARTMENT OF POST DIPLOMA EUCATION
INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS DEVISION AND PREPARATORY DEPARTMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS
PRE-UNIVERSITY TRAINING DIVISION

Exercise 14 Discuss the problem:

The ways in which higher schools in your country differ from higher schools in the United States.

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