For the past five years, more international students on Indiana University’s Bloomington campus have come from China than any other country, and 2015 isn’t expected to be any different.
In 2010, China overtook South Korea as the most common country of origin for international students on the Bloomington campus. It has maintained that spot every year since. In 2014, Chinese students outnumbered South Korean students, the second largest group of international students, by 2,286.
It wasn’t always this way, though. A Herald-Times analysis of 20 years’ worth of data on international students found that from 1995 to 2009, South Koreans were the largest group of international students. The Chinese student population started to increase significantly after Michael McRobbie became president of the university on July 1, 2007. That year, the Chinese student population increased by more than 23 percent from the previous year.
In 2014, according to IU’s data, there were 3,100 Chinese students on the Bloomington campus, compared with 814 students from South Korea.
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