WORLDVIEW: College students from the Middle East talk about studying in Chicago
By The ArchivesWORLDVIEW: College students from the Middle East talk about studying in Chicago
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This week on Worldview we talked about higher education in the Middle East and how its changing.
Like everywhere else in the world, some students from the Middle East make the decision to pursue an education here in this country. A study released this week‚ says the number of Middle Eastern students studying in the U.S. went up 18% this year. As part of our series Higher Education in the Middle East, we went out to local universities in Chicago and got a first-person account from some international students about why they chose to come study in the U.S. WV-20091120a