The bar chart illustrates how many international students applied to universities in a particular European country from 2004 to 2008.
Overall, the quantity of overseas students from Japan, Russia and the USA both witnessed an increasing trend, meanwhile the figure of students studying abroad in China had a decreasing trend. In addition, the entire number of students from Russia was always at least.
Regarding the number of international students from China and USA at European universities. China reached the highest number with around 28,000 students and this figure declined significantly but continuously ranked first about 22,000 students in the next years. However, China saw a downward trend in three years later, recording only around 18,000; 18,000 and 16,000 students in 2006, 2007 and 2008, respectively. Reference to students from the United States, showed an impressive growth. More specificaly, in 2004 students from the USA accounted for around 13,000 and grew remarkably in 2005. This data went up gradually throughout the period until it reached the highest number in 2008 with more than 27,000 students.
In terms of the quantity of students coming from two countries examined. Both Japan and Russia showed that the number of students studying at European Universities is pretty low. Entire number of Japanese students fluctuated around 7,000 between 2004 and 2006. However, it climbed slightly in the next year and it attended 10,000 in 2008. On the other hand, Russia always was the least, Russia’s number of students decreased minimally in 2005 for around 2,500 students enrolled but also increased slightly in the next 3 years with 4000 students enrolled.