ANNUAL REPORTFALL 2020

OFFICE OF
INTERNATIONALSTUDENTS &SCHOLARSTABLE OF CONTENTS

Letter from the Director.....................................................................3
Our International Community............................................................4International Student Statistics.........................................................5
History of Enrollment.........................................................................6
Fall 2020 Adaptation...........................................................................7International Student Employment...............................................8-9
Countries of Citizenship....................................................................10
Enrollment by Country.................................................................11-12
Economic Impact...............................................................................13
International Scholars......................................................................14
OISS Staff............................................................................................15

Photo credits: Kat Kendon, Matt Stanley, Ryan Hulvat, & Christa Neu

LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR

Dear Colleagues:
We are pleased to share this report on the university’s international student and scholar
community. The Office of International Students & Scholars (OISS) tracks and provides
resources for an international population of over 1400.
This report serves as a statistical resource about our international population. Lehigh’s
international community includes degree seeking and non-degree seeking nonimmigrant visa holders. It also includes the international scholars on campus who serve as
researchers, faculty members and short-term lecturers at the university. Ourinternational population also includes dependents of our students and scholars as well as
fall 2020 first-year undergraduate and graduate students who weren’t successful inobtaining a U.S. visa. The report does not include immigrants such as green card holders,
asylees or refugees.
If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me atsad416@lehigh.edu.
Sincerely,Samba Dieng
Director, International Students & Scholars

3OUR INTERNATIONAL
COMMUNITYAt Lehigh, our total population of international
students, scholars, and families is 1,418.
WHAT WE DO
We advise and support

Post-Completion OPT, 306
21.6%

the university'sUndergraduates, 465
32.8%international communityof students and scholars.
We work with relevant
government agencies onmatters relating to ourinternational
community.
We strive to educate andDependents, 96
6.8%
Scholars, 26
1.8%

collaborate withuniversity colleagues.
We advocate on behalf ofour population regarding
immigration, crosscultural and personal

Graduates, 525
37%matters.
We contribute tointercultural awarenessvia educational, socialand cross-cultural
programming.

4VISA TYPESINTERNATIONAL STUDENT STATISTICS
J-1
2.3%

Other
2.3%

990 enrolled international students
465 undergraduate
525 graduate

221 new international students
124 undergraduate
97 graduate

INTERNATIONAL ENROLLMENT BY COLLEGEUNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
Intercollegiate
10.1%

F-1
95.4%

GRADUATE STUDENTS

General College
0.6%

Education6.5%

Arts & Sciences
16.6%

Business
12%
Arts & Sciences
37%
Engineering
24.7%

Business
27.3%

TOP PROGRAMS OF STUDYUNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

GRADUATE STUDENTS

Computer Science

Mechanical Eng

FinanceIndustrial & Systems Eng

Chemical Eng

Electrical Eng

Industrial & Systems Eng

Chemical Eng

Business Info Systems

Computer Science
02550

Engineering
62.5%

75

0255075

HISTORY OF
ENROLLMENT
Five-Year Review

750

500

2500

Fall 2016

Fall '16

Fall 2017

Fall '17

Fall 2018

Fall 2019

Fall 2020

Fall '18

Fall '19

Fall '20

Undergraduate

440434452

470465

Graduate

715710640

589525+5%Increase ininternational
undergraduate
enrollment in thepast five years.

-26%

Decrease ininternational
graduate
enrollment in thepast five years.

6FALL 2020 ADAPTATION
Due to COVID-19, many international students were not able to come on campus in the Fall. Challenges with travelbans and U.S. consulate closures around the world made it difficult for students to obtain visas. To adapt to theseunforeseen circumstances, the Office of International Affairs offered creative solutions for new and current
international students.

HYBRID LEARNINGInternational students who could travel to the U.S. and continuing
students who remained in the Bethlehem area could take a blendof classes online and in person.

ENROLLMENT BY LEARNING
MODALITYNEW GRADUATE STUDENTS

REMOTE LEARNINGInternational students who returned to their home countries or
who were unable to secure a visa in time for the Fall semester
could elect to participate remotely.

Hybrid45.5%

Remote54.5%

LEHIGH IN RESIDENCE
A residential freshman semester wherestudents can matriculate for the Fallsemester at Lehigh University and takecourses for Lehigh credit at a university intheir home country.

NEW UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
Hybrid14%

PARTNER PROGRAMSIES Abroad in Shanghai, ChinaSogang University, South Korea

Remote
21.5%
LIR
64.5%

STUDY ABROAD
To give students the option to "study abroad"in their home country of residence, eligiblestudents were placed in partner programs,
while remaining enrolled as a Lehigh student.

CONTINUING STUDENTS
Study Abroad
6.1%

Remote23.1%

PARTNER PROGRAMSTEAN Fudan University
Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
NYU Shanghai
American College of Thessaloniki,
GreeceHybrid70.8%*According to results from an international student surveysent out by OISS in September 2020.

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INTERNATIONAL STUDENT EMPLOYMENTStill Seeking
7.4%
Other
5.9%
Employed
29.4%

Lehigh’s Center for Career andProfessional Development (CCPD)
subscribed to the Interstride career
portal designed to enhance the career
exploration and job search experience
for international students.

$82,375

Continuing Education
57.4%

TOP
EMPLOYERSCONTINUINGEDUCATION

PwC

Carnegie Mellon

KPMG

Lehighaverage starting

J.P. MorganCornell

salaryMorgan Stanley

University ofSiemens

Pennsylvania*According to data that was obtained for
74% of international undergraduate
students in the Class of 2019.

8INTERNATIONAL STUDENT EMPLOYMENTOPTIONAL PRACTICAL TRAINING (OPT)
Optional Practical
Training (OPT) is abenefit for international

We currently have 306 students on
OPT or STEM OPT.

students allowing them towork in the U.S. for one
year or more in their fieldof study, after completionof their degree.
STEM OPT allows
Science, Technology,

STEM OPT
51.6%

OPT
48.4%

Engineering & Math(STEM) degree holders toapply for a 24-monthextension of OPT.

-15.24%

Decrease in the number ofstudents onOPT/STEM OPT from
Fall '19 to Fall '20.

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COUNTRIES OF
CITIZENSHIP

Asia

AfricaAmericas

EuropeOceania

1. Afghanistan
2. Azerbaijan
3. Bangladesh
4. Cambodia
5. China
6. Hong Kong
7. India
8. Indonesia
9. Iran
10. Iraq
11. Japan
12. Jordan
13. Kazakhstan
14. Kuwait
15. Kyrgyzstan
16. Macau
17. Malaysia
18. Nepal
19. Oman
20. Pakistan
21. Palestine
22. Philippines
23. Saudi Arabia
24. Singapore
25. South Korea
26. Sri Lanka
27. Taiwan
28. Thailand
29. Vietnam
30. West Bank

1. Botswana
2. Egypt
3. Ethiopia
4. Ghana
5. Kenya
6. Lesotho
7. Malawi
8. Morocco
9. Nigeria
10. Rwanda
11. Senegal
12. Sierra Leone
13. South Africa
14. Tunisia
15. Uganda
16. Zimbabwe

1. Antigua
2. Argentina
3. Bahamas
4. Barbados
5. Brazil
6. Canada
7. Colombia
8. Costa Rica
9. El Salvador
10. Guatemala
11. Jamaica
12. Mexico
13. Panama
14. Peru
15. Venezuela

1. Belgium
2. Bosnia
3. Czech Republic
4. France
5. Georgia
6. Germany
7. Greece
8. Italy
9. Macedonia
10. Montenegro
11. Netherlands
12. Poland
13. Portugal
14. Romania
15. Russia
16. Slovakia
17. Spain
18. Turkey
19. Ukraine
20. United
Kingdom

1. Australia
2. New Zealand

83
countries
represented

10ENROLLMENT BY COUNTRYAN OVERVIEW ACROSS THE GLOBETop Countries
TOP COUNTRIES REPRESENTED
Represented
South
Korea,
Vietnam,
1622
Vietnam, 16Iran, 24
2.9%
2.2%
2.2%
3.2%
India, 69
9.3%

China, 609
82.3%

REPRESENTATION ACROSS REGIONS
Americas4.9%Africa4%

Europe6.1%

Oceania
0.5%

Asia
84.4%

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ENROLLMENT BY COUNTRY

12ECONOMIC IMPACTCONTRIBUTIONS ACROSS THE SPECTRUM
The economic contributions of international students are in addition to theimmeasurable academic and cultural value these students bring to our campus, local
community, state, and nation at large.

$66M
LehighUniversity$103.2M

financial contribution

financial contribution

LehighValley992

1,226

jobs supported

jobs supported

$41B

$2.1B

financial contribution

financial contribution

Pennyslvania

National

458,290

27,530jobs supported

jobs supported

For every
7 international
students

3 U.S. jobs arecreatedand supported by spending
occurring in the higher education,accommodation, dining, retail,transportation, telecommunications
and health insurance sectors(NAFSA).
*NAFSA approximates

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INTERNATIONALSCHOLARS
Our 26 scholars include: visiting researchers & scientists,
professors and student interns.

FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATION
Biology/Biological Sciences
Chemical and BiomolecularEngineering
ChemistryComputer Science
Electrical Engineering
Engineering
Environmental Science
Industrial Engineering
Materials Science
Mathematics
Mechanical Engineering
Physics
Theology/TheologicalStudies

ScholarSpotlight

WHERE OUR SCHOLARS COME FROM
China
Colombia
Germany
GhanaIndia
IsraelItaly
South Korea
Timor-Liste
United Kingdom0246*This list includes only the scholars overseen by OISS*Scholars as of 10/03/20; scholars arrive throughout the year

Hugo Guterres,Ph.D.
Timor-Leste
Hailing from the small island of Timor-Leste in Southeast Asia, Hugo
Guterres is a visiting scholar in the Biological Sciences department. Hugo is askilled computational chemist and since joining Lehigh in 2019 as a
Postdoctoral Research Associate, he has been working on developing
computational toolsets for structural systems pharmacology, or to put
simply, drug discovery and design. Hugo has published two peer-reviewed
papers in collaboration with Wonpil Im, Ph.D.(Professor, Presidential
Endowed Chair in Health - Science and Engineering), who heads a researchgroup at Lehigh. We are grateful for scholars like Hugo, whose notableachievements and contributions extend far beyond the walls of our campus.

14OISS STAFF

Samba Dieng

Olga Scarpero

Director

Assistant Director

Caroline Neal

Anna Park

Intercultural Programs
CoordinatorInternational Student& Scholar Advisor

Melanie Contreras
Coordinator

Office of International Students and Scholars
32 Sayre Drive, Bethlehem, PA 18015(610) 758-4977 | intnl@lehigh.edu
https://global.lehigh.edu/oiss