The bar chart illustrates the number of oversea students from four nations enrolling in European universities between 2004 and 2008.
In general, the number of students in Japan and USA increased significantly over the period shown, with USA showing the most pronounced rise, while that of China experience decrease. It is also clear that Russian was the only country that remained stable during the examined period.
The trajectory observed in the China follows a contrasting pattern compared to the trend seen in the USA. The former commenced with by far the highest number of 28000 students, which was 2 times as much as that of the latter. Therefore, the former witnessed its student applying to several European universities falling significantly to 21000 students in 2005, before gradually dropping to approximately 15000 at the end of the period. By comparison, the number of American students furthering their education in European universities grew considerably from 14000 to the exact same level as China (17000 students) in 2006, after which it experienced a significant increase to overtake China to become the leading part of international enrollers. Thereafter, a considerable growth was seen in the number of American students, reaching 28000 at the end of the period. This rise mad USA the country having students going to European universities the most, proportionally.
Turning to the other nations, Japan was the only countries to start increasing its student’s enrollment to certain universities of Europe in 2006, with a number of 7000.This was followed by an increase, albeit to greater extent, at the end of the period. Finally, Russian maintained a relatively stable student’s choice to European universities, with its modest number hovering around under 5000 students.