Overview
- The Open Doors 2025 report counts 1,177,766 international students in 2024â25, a 4.5% increase from the prior year.
- Mathematics and computer science lead with 305,377 students, accounting for more than a quarter of international enrollments.
- Indian students remain the largest cohort at 363,019, even as enrollments from India and China each declined about 17% year over year.
- An IIE Fall 2025 snapshot finds new international students down 17%, graduate enrollments down 12%, undergraduate numbers up 2%, and overall headcount down 1% across reporting campuses.
- Colleges cite visa-related delays as key headwinds, with reported interview pauses, social-media vetting, and some visa revocations, while Fâ1 visas issued to Indian students fell 33.2% in FY 2024.