"China is going to matter greatly to all students in the 21st century," said Robert Weisbuch, president of Drew University, a small liberal arts school in Madison, New Jersey which has increased its international enrollment by 60% in the last five years.
"We feel it is important to provide the opportunity for American and Chinese students to learn from one another."
For a long time a substantial number of students from China filled American graduate schools. Now it is undergraduates that represent the fastest-growing group of international students on US campuses. According to the Institute of International Education, in 2008-2009 more than 26,000 were studying in the United States, up from about 8,000 eight years earlier.
NDTV reports that students are ending up not just at nationally known universities but also at regional colleges, state schools and even community colleges that recruit overseas.