{"id":2544,"date":"2025-08-25T20:57:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T20:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/?p=2544"},"modified":"2026-05-01T03:10:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T08:10:17","slug":"fall-2025-international-affairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/fall-2025-international-affairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall 2025 International Affairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>\n<p>The number of international students hosted by the United States recently surpassed pre-COVID enrollment numbers. Nepal, Nigeria, Bangladesh, and Ghana in particular continue to experience growth. As a result, MTSU has focused recruitment efforts in these countries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2024 Economic Value Report from NAFSA, the Association of International Educators, found that international students studying at U.S. colleges and universities contributed $43.8 billion to the U.S. economy and supported 378,175 jobs during the 2023\u201324 academic year. The financial contribution from international students at MTSU alone that year exceeded $18 million. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the Fall 2025 semester, MTSU had more than 3,600 applications from international students\u2014an increase of more than 110% from Fall 2024. More than 1,500 have been admitted, an increase of more than 33%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These applicants represent more than 115 different countries. We are pleased to welcome these students from different backgrounds and cultures whose contributions on campus enrich the entire University. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MTSU students are also traveling the world. During the 2024\u201325 academic year, 278 students (a 13% increase over 2023\u201324) participated in overseas studies, representing six MTSU colleges. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our faculty-led signature programs are a great pathway for students to study abroad; however, direct and exchange options are steadily becoming more popular among our student population. During the 2024\u201325 academic year, 354 travel abroad scholarships (totaling more than $335,900) were awarded to MTSU students. In addition, nine MTSU students were awarded the esteemed Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship to study abroad in the Winter and Summer 2025 terms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of international students hosted by the United States recently surpassed pre-COVID enrollment numbers. Nepal, Nigeria, Bangladesh, and Ghana in particular continue to experience growth. As a result, MTSU has focused recruitment efforts in these countries. The 2024 Economic Value Report from NAFSA, the Association of International Educators, found that international students studying at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":192,"featured_media":2545,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/192"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2958,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544\/revisions\/2958"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}