{"id":11318,"date":"2018-11-15T14:38:04","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T08:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pahichan.com\/?p=11318"},"modified":"2018-11-15T14:38:04","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T08:53:04","slug":"number-of-nepali-students-reach-highest-in-the-last-three-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/number-of-nepali-students-reach-highest-in-the-last-three-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Number of Nepali Students Reach Highest in the Last Three Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Kathmandu (Pahichan) November 15 \u2013 According to the 2018 Open Doors Report on International Educational Exchange data released by IIE and the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, the number of Nepali students studying in the United States has increased by 14.3 percent over the prior year. The report shows the number of Nepali students in the United States has once again posted the highest growth among the top 25 sending countries, and increased to a record level, totaling 13,270 \u2013 the third year in a row to see growth.\u00a0 Nepal\u00a0 now ranks 10th among the top 25 for undergraduate students in the U.S.<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cInternational students studying alongside Americans are a tremendous asset to the United States,\u201d said Marie Royce, Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs. \u201cWe need to develop leaders in all fields who can take on our toughest challenges.\u00a0 We need people who can find solutions that keep us secure and make us more prosperous. We want to send a message that international education makes us stronger as a country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the 2017-2018 academic year, for the third consecutive year, U.S. colleges and universities hosted more than one million international students, reaching a record &#8211; of 1.09 million students.\u00a0 This also marks the twelfth consecutive year of continued expansion. The number of Americans studying in Nepal has also significantly increased\u2014by 57 percent\u2014compared to the previous year. We believe, institutional collaboration and student exchange programs have played a vital role in stimulating\u00a0 growth over the past two years.<\/p>\n<p>The Open Doors Report also marks the celebration of International Education Week (IEW) from November 12- 16, a joint initiative of the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education, designed to attract future leaders from other countries to study, learn, and exchange experiences in the United States.\u00a0 In support of IEW 2018, the U.S. Embassy in Nepal\u2019s partner organizations, The United States Educational Foundation Nepal (USEF), EducationUSA Reference Center Learning House, and American Center will host \u2018Get Inspired\u2019 programs featuring Nepali alumni of U.S. universities, student visa sessions by Embassy\u2019s Consular officers, trivia, host webinars an online college fair and other activities to discuss and promote U.S. higher education and career options for Nepali students.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu (Pahichan) November 15 \u2013 According to the 2018 Open Doors Report on International Educational Exchange data released by IIE and the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, the number of Nepali students studying in the United States has increased by 14.3 percent over the prior year. The report shows the number of Nepali students in the United States has once again posted the highest growth among the top 25 sending countries, and increased to a record level, totaling 13,270 \u2013 the third year in a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":11319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1827,18,981,621,490],"tags":[545],"class_list":["post-11318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-issue","category-diplomacy","category-education","category-model","category-news","category-slider","tag-united-states"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11320,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11318\/revisions\/11320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}