International Students: The Most Popular Fields of Study

News alert! We have just received our annual report from the International Review. Each year this publication puts out a statistical report on international student enrollments in various major fields of study.

This year it was no surprise to find that once again the field of engineering had top enrollments with business and management in second place. In third and fourth places are the fields of natural sciences and social sciences. In order, the next four choices are humanities, education, math and computer science, and arts. The last two of the top ten are health professions and agriculture.

The report reveals some interesting changes in major field enrollments last year. Engineering, long a very popular field of study for international students, reached a new height. Enrollment figures increased from 22 percent to nearly 29 percent. Similar increases are found in business and management, which moved up from just over 14 percent to 16 and a half, and math and computer science, up from 3 and a half percent to 5 and a half percent.

b) Fill the spaces with the names of the fields of study, using the information given above.

The percentage enrollments for the top ten fields are as follows:

First: _______ at 28.8 percent. Sixth: ______at 5.6 percent.

Second: _______at 16.5 percent. Seventh: ____at 5.5 percent.

Third: _______ at 9.2 percent. Eighth: _____ at 5.3 percent.

Fourth: _____at 8.9 percent. Ninth: _______ at 4.7 percent.

Fifth: ______at 5.7 percent. Tenth: ________at 3.3 percent.

Exercise 8Finish the interview.

Exercise 9Choose the right word for each sentence:

degree, lack, advice, find out, further, decide, indicate, consists, according, enrolled, assumes, enroll, complete, evaluated, strict, change, academic

1 New students must_____ for classes before term begins.

2 I'm going to_____ all I can about the subject because I need this information.

3 This course _____ no previous knowledge of the subject.

4 Sean asked his teacher's_______ about going to university.

5 What are you going to do when you _______ school?

6 Have you_____ for any evening classes next term?

7 Viola took her_____ at Cambridge University.

8 In some countries, students are selected_______ to their current level of academic attainment.

9 Your progress will be______ in three months' time.

10 Our group____ of twelve students.

11 Some schools have very_______ rules of behavior which must be obeyed.

12 It was very difficult for the examiner to________ what recommendations he should make.

13 Please inform the college secretary if you_________ your address.

14 The classes were closed because of_________ of interest.

15 This school has the highest ____ standards in our town.

16 We need_____ information before we can decide which courses to choose.

17 Please___ clearly which courses you want to take.

Exercise 10Read the text about Sumy State University.

Find answers to the following questions:

1 When was the institution founded?

2 How long did it function as a division of Kharkiv Polytechnical Institute?

3 When did it become an independent school?

4 How was the institution called in 1991?

5 When did it become a classical university?

6 How many students study here?

7 How can you describe the University faculty?

Sumy State University takes its founding date as 1948. In 1966 the institution was incorporated as the Sumy Division of Kharkiv Polytechnical Institute. In 1990 the school, which had already become a modern educational complex with a variety of engineering specialities, gained its independence from Kharkiv Polytechnical Institute by state legislative action and began operating as Sumy Institute of Physics and Technology. In August 1993 the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine authorized that the name of the institution be changed to Sumy State University, effective September 1, 1993.

The University provides a variety of courses across Mechanical Engineering, Electronics, Mathematics, Information Science, Journalism, Linguistics, Material Science, Medicine, Law, Economics, Business and Management, Environmental Science, Power Engineering, etc. to around 20000 Ukrainian and foreign students. About two and a half thousand faculty (teachers) and staff work in various divisions, departments and chairs. Among them there are about 60 Professors, 400Associate Professors, nearly 30 Academicians, Corresponding Members of Academies, Honoured Scientists and Educationalists, etc.

Among the University alumni there are a lot of well-known scientists, top managers and leading specialists of industrial enterprises, research and educational institutions, native and foreign firms, banks, etc.

Sumy State University, which is a member of a number of international educational and scientific organizations, was ranked high among the institutions of higher learning by the All-Ukrainian Special Rating Programme “St. Sophia of Kyiv” and the International Academic Rating Programme of Popularity and Quality “Zolota Fortuna”.

Exercise 12Write a letter to your friend about your studies.

Exercise 13Tell about your University using the given tables:

Exercise 14 Discuss the problem:

The ways in which higher schools in your country differ from higher schools in the United States.

Date: 2015-12-17; view: 1347