11.5 percent growth in new international students in US graduate schools - Council of Graduate Schools

Among graduate students in fall 2013 whose citizenship was known, 83.3% were U.S. citizens or permanent residents and 16.7% were temporary residents. Among U.S. citizens and permanent residents at least 29.7% of all enrollees were racial/ethnic minorities. Nearly six out of ten graduate students were enrolled full-time in fall 2013, and roughly four out of every ten were enrolled part-time. About four in every ten (42.1%) graduate students in fall 2013 were men and about six in ten (57.9%) were women. Women comprised a larger share of total enrollees at the master’s degree and graduate certificate level (60.5%) than at the doctoral level (51.1%). The broad fields of education, business, and health sciences enrolled the largest numbers of graduate students in fall 2013. About three-quarters (72.8%) of graduate students in fall 2013 were enrolled in programs leading to a master’s degree or a graduate certificate, and approximately one-quarter (27.2%) were enrolled in doctoral programs. http://cgsnet.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/GED_report_2013.pdf