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SEVIS vs. Open Doors: An Update on Vietnamese Enrollment in the USA

Even when I was country director of the Institute of International Education (IIE) in Vietnam (from 2005-09) I couldn’t understand the excitement about the annual release of the latest Open Doors Report. My plea to switch from what is essentially ...

Oz Trades Places with the US – Again

Australia has surpassed the US as the world’s leading English-speaking host of Vietnamese students, according to the Australian Department of Education. As of July 2023, there were 27,764 Vietnamese students in Australia, 4% of the total international enrollment and a ...

Let’s ditch the binaries and join the ‘all of humanity’ club

Violence is often a catalyst for people, even those who think of themselves as enlightened international educators, to show their true colours and revert to tribal loyalties....

Vietnamese Enrollments in the US Holding Steady

When it rains, it pours. Being the wonk that I am, I have been checking periodically for a SEVIS update since the last one was uploaded in March 2023. At that time, there were 24,865 Vietnamese students in the US ...

International students are so much more than cash cows

2022 SEVIS by the Numbers Report: Vietnam

While the periodic SEVIS updates, sometimes monthly, other times quarterly, contain real-time statistics, the annual reports present cumulative totals. According to the 2022 report (PDF download), the total number of SEVIS records for active F-1 and M-1 students was 1,362,157 in 2022, ...