UNESCO SCIENCE REPORT

UNESCO Figure 2.12: SCIENCE Preferred REPORT destinations of international doctoral students in
science and engineering fields, 2012
The USA alone hosts nearly half of international doctoral students
enrolled in science and engineering fields
Distribution of international doctoral students in science and engineering programmes
by host country, 2012 (%)
Australia
France
7.4
UK
9.2
USA
49.1%
Share of international doctoral students
enrolled in science and engineering
programmes in the USA
4.6
Canada
3.9
Germany
3.5
3.1
Switzerland
2.9
2.9
Japan
2.0
Malaysia
Sweden
Other countries
11.4
2012
49.1
9.2%
Share of international doctoral students
enrolled in science and engineering
programmes in the UK
7.4%
Share of international doctoral students
enrolled in science and engineering
programmes in France
The USA hosts four out of ten international doctoral students
Share of international students by type of programme and host country, 2012 (%)
40.1
Doctoral programmes
Other tertiary, non-doctoral
programmes
21.8
14.2
10.8
8.8
8.7
8.3
8.5
4.7
4.9
4.3
7.1
3.9
4.0 3.1
1.2
3.1
2.8
1.7 1.7
0.8
3.0
1.7
1.9
1.7
1.4
1.9 1.4
1.4
2.1
1.3
1.9
1.1
2.7
1.1
1.4
0.9
1.3
0.9
0.8
0.6
5.0
USA
UK
France
Australia
Japan
Germany
Canada
Switzerland
Malaysia
Sweden
China
Austria
Netherlands
Belgium
Republic of Korea
Spain
Italy
New Zealand
Czech Republic
Norway
Other host countries
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