Students across the world are on the move. Each academic year, more than 1,200,000 students worldwide pursue higer education outside their home countries. More than 450,000 foreign students study in the United States, while over 70,000 U.S. students go abroad. Foreign students benefit from the high calibre of a U.S. education, of course, but the United States benefits, too. Foreign students increase diversity in the student body, teach U.S. students about other countries and cultures, and are among the best graduate students and faculty in the world's finest university system.
Many challenges lie ahead.
There are the challenges of the classroom. The American educational system may be quite different from what you have known. There are the challenges of daily life outside the classroom. You will have to adjust to living in a new community with rules and customs undoubtedly different from your own. You will surely experience the feeling of being an outsider.