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JAPAN: more Japanese students staying home
21.04.2010
Takuya Otani would love an MBA from a top US business school, but he won't apply. When he graduates from college in Tokyo next year, he'll pass on an American degree and attend graduate school in Japan, writes Blaine Harden for The Washington Post. "I am a grass-eater," Otani said wistfully, using an in-vogue expression for a person who avoids stress, controls risk and grazes contentedly in home pastures. Once a voracious consumer of American higher education, Japan is becoming a nation of grass-eaters.Undergraduate enrolment in US universities has fallen 52% since 2000; graduate enrolment has dropped 27%. It is a steep, sustained and potentially harmful decline for an export-dependent nation that is losing global market share to its highly competitive Asian neighbors, whose students are stampeding into American schools.
Total enrolment from China is up 164% in the past decade; from India, it has jumped 190%. South Korea has about 76 million fewer people than Japan, but it now sends two-and-a-half times as many students to US colleges.
Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust said that when she visited Japan last month, she met with students and educators who told her that Japanese young people are inward-looking, preferring the comfort of home to venturing overseas. They also told her they view the economic advantage of attending a U.S. college as questionable.
"An international degree is not as valued," Faust said she learned from her encounters here.
Full report on The Washington Post site
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