Bangladeshi students in US increase by 5pc

The number of students from Bangladesh in the United States increased by 4.9 percent to 7,496 during the last school year, beating the international average increase of 1.5 percent, according to the 2018 Open Doors Report on International Educational Exchange.

Bangladesh now ranks 24th in the world for countries sending students to the United States for higher education, and tenth in the world for number of students studying at the graduate level.

The number of Bangladeshi students studying in the United States has increased by 58.4 percent over the past six years, according to a US embassy press release yesterday. 

For the past three years, US colleges and universities hosted more than one million international students, reaching a record high of 1.09 million this school year. This also marks the twelfth consecutive year of continued expansion of the total number of international students in US higher education.