EAST LANSING, Mich. — The most recent data available on MSU’s international student population are from fall 2009. According to the Office of International Students and Scholars:
- 5,056 international students attended MSU, an increase of 12 percent over the total from 2008.
- It was the first year in MSU’s history that the international undergraduate students (2,636) outnumbered international graduate students (2,420 graduates).
- 53 percent were male and 47 percent were female.
- 38 percent of the international students came from China (1,934), 16 percent from Korea (810) and 8 percent from India (397).
- While the number of Chinese students drastically increased, there was a sharp decline in the number of Korean students between the 2008-09 academic years.
- The colleges of Business (1,382), Engineering (729), Natural Science (709), Agriculture and Natural Resources (499) and Social Science (462) enrolled the largest numbers of international students at MSU.
- There were 1,019 visiting international faculty at MSU in the past year.
According to Open Doors 2009:
- MSU had the 10th largest number of international student enrollment in the U.S.
- MSU’s international community contributed an estimated $150 million to the local economy.
- MSU led the nation in study abroad participation among public universities in the U.S., with 2,969 MSU students studying abroad.
Open Doors is the annual report published by the Institute of International Education.
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