Within the 2023/2024 educational yr, 430,466 worldwide college students have been registered within the French increased schooling system – a 4.5% enhance from the earlier educational yr, in accordance with new authorities knowledge.
The latest figures present a 17% enhance over 5 years when put next with these of 2018/2019.
Following a slowdown final yr in scholar mobility from Asia-Pacific, France skilled a resurgence in scholar mobility from the area this yr, with a rise of 5%.
Scholar numbers from India noticed a 12% enhance, whereas China noticed a 6% enhance, marking a rebound after the Covid-related restrictions that restricted mobility from the nation.
Sub-Saharan Africa stood out because the area with with the sharpest development – a 9% enhance in contrast with final yr.
In the meantime, numbers from Europe grew by 4%, pushed by a rise in college students from Ukraine (14%) and Romania (10%).
The Americas area noticed a 1% lower over one yr, in accordance with the federal government knowledge.
Morocco, Algeria, China, Italy and Senegal stay the highest sending nations of worldwide college students to France, with the highest 10 nations remaining largely unchanged yr on yr.
Although Morocco nonetheless leads the best way, Campus France famous the variety of Moroccan college students in France decreased for the second yr in a row, this yr by 4%.
In the meantime, scholar numbers from Algeria noticed a 7% enhance.
All establishment sorts noticed a rise of their worldwide scholar numbers, with enterprise faculties registering the sharpest enhance at 11%.
Based on evaluation by Campus France, the change within the variety of worldwide college students in France is the results of two years of enhance: a pointy post-Covid pickup of mobilities (8%) in 2021/2022, adopted by a smaller 3% in 2022/2023.
The competitors to draw skills is fiercer than ever
Donatienne Hissard, Campus France
“The post-Covid pickup impact is fading, and France, like another main host nation, continues its development of mobilities,” stated Donatienne Hissard, director-general of Campus France.
Nonetheless, she famous that “competitors to draw skills is fiercer than ever”.
“Based on first estimates, our opponents register will increase starting from 5% in Germany for 2023-24 to 12% for the UK between 2022 and 2023, and even 29% for Canada in 2023, which ends up in changes in relation with this post-pandemic enhance.”
Talking to The PIE Information on the 2024 EAIE convention in Toulouse, Hissard stated that by surpassing 430,000 worldwide college students, France is “on monitor” to succeed in its goal of 500,000 by 2027.
Nonetheless, she advised extra data is required concerning the course of the nation’s new centre-right authorities and the affect this can have on worldwide schooling.
Worldwide college students make up 14% of the coed inhabitants in France, sustaining the identical proportion as final yr.
