"For students, higher education is becoming a borderless world," says an article written in the September 8, 2005 for September 10 issue of The Economist magazine.

"International education ... is undergoing the same process of “massification” that has reshaped domestic higher-education policy. The number of foreign students (in the top 10 receiving countries) has doubled over the past 20 years, to 1.5 million."

"...The world's brightest students — and particularly its brightest graduate students — want to study at the world's best universities. Half the world's students live in developing countries where the supply of university places cannot keep up with the demand. Two of the biggest exporters of students in absolute numbers are China (with 10% of all those studying abroad) and India (with 4%)..."

For the full article see The Economist website at: http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=4340017