Research Blog #6: Visual

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From the images above, we are able to conclude that international students' application rate and American universities' admission rate have almost the same trend from 2004-2013. There was a huge increase in both application rate and admission rate from 2004-2006, indicating that it was the time when mass recruitment begins. The lower image shows that there is a sharp increase of the amount of economic benefits that international students contribute to the United States starting from the academic year 95-96 and the trend keeps increasing until academic year 07-08; it seems like it will continuously grow. The two statistical results reveal the fact that since the admission rate remains relatively stable over years, international students contribute more dollars to the United States. We therefore may have evidence to conclude that American public higher education intentionally raise the tuition cost for international students in order to compensate for their loss of public funding. And this drastic increase in the amount of international students and the tuition cost will ultimately generate certain adverse consequences.