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The number of students from India had risen rapidly -- climbing from just in -- and it dropped this fall with similar precipitousness. Central Missouri is enrolling just students from India this year, out of a total international population of students.
The drop in international graduate students accounts for an approximately 40 percent drop in Central Missouri's total graduate enrollment, when went from 4, students last fall to 2, this fall.
It's true that enrollment is up at Central Missouri at the undergraduate level: the university reports a 5. The number of international undergraduates is also up, albeit from a small base, from to international students.
The university also reports a 5. To save money the university initiated a voluntary retirement incentive program , which Murphy said employees opted for, including 35 faculty members and 75 staff. Public universities have increasingly turned to tuition revenue from international students to make up for state funding shortfalls, but the drop in Indian students at Central Missouri shows the risk of relying too much on students from any one country.
In a recent survey of admissions directors conducted by Inside Higher Ed and Gallup, 53 percent of respondents from private universities and 39 percent from public universities said that American colleges have become too dependent "on international students from a few countries, such as China and India," the top two countries of origin for international students in the U.
Central Missouri officials say that while the university recruits in India, the surge in students from there was unexpected. We had two academic programs in particular that I think individuals found of interest to them: they were a graduate computer science program and a graduate program in computer information systems.
He said about seven to eight year-to-year positions have been cut, but that no permanent, tenured or tenure-track positions were eliminated. Our president and a delegation of nine or 10 other faculty and staff members in September visited India and Nepal and Saudi Arabia and met with alumni from UCM.
They also attended college fairs and visited with industries and tried to establish some strong connections to build our enrollment in the future. Many universities across the country are reporting declines in international student enrollments this fall.
However, the trend is far from uniform, and some institutions are reporting increases. University of Central Missouri P. Box Warrensburg MO, Tel: Breadcrumb Home About Fast Facts.
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