The Chinese Ministry of Education (MOE) reported that there were 545,500 Chinese students studying abroad in 2016, an increase of 36.26 percent compared with the data in 2012.
But where do those students study? What are the top destinations? A report from Knight Frank has examined where Chinese students most often went to study in 2015.
We’ve listed the top 10 countries here:
10. New Zealand: 13,952 students
University of Auckland, Auckland Wikipedia / CC 3.0
9. Germany: 19,441 students
Humboldt University, Berlin S-F/Shutterstock
8. France: 25,388 students
University of Paris, Paris Peter Haas, Wikipedia
7. Hong Kong: 25,800 students
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology HKUST/CC 3.0
6. Republic of Korea: 38,109 students
Yonsei University, Seoul Wikipedia / CC 3.0
5. Canada: 42,011 students
University of Toronto, Toronto Jphillips23/Wikipedia
4. United Kingdom: 86,204 students
Cambridge University, Cambridge Wikipedia/Andrew Dunn
3. Japan: 89,788 students
University of Tokyo, Tokyo IchiroHayano/Wikipedia
2. Australia: 90,245 students
Australia National University, CanberraAngelo Tsirekas/Wikipedia
1. United States: 260,914 students
Harvard University, Massachusetts USAAP/Steven Senne
