Student mobility: key figures
Student mobility: key figures

The new version of Chiffres clés Campus France, published in February 2017, gives access in a single document to all the data on student mobility in the world as well as in France.

Highlights include:

• The number of internationally mobile students has doubled in twelve years, reaching 4.3 million in 2014. France, the leading non-English-speaking destination, ranks^4th among host countries behind the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia (source UNESCO).
• The number of Erasmus mobility students has increased by 53% in 5 years, and by 7% in 1 year. France has lost two places in 5 years, falling back to^4th position among Erasmus mobility countries, behind Spain, Germany and the UK. Conversely, France has moved up to first place among countries of origin, just ahead of Germany (source: European Commission).
• The number of foreign students in France has risen by 8.7% in 5 years, reaching 309,642 at the start of the 2015-2016 academic year, a steady but slower increase than global mobility. Growth in the number of foreign students in France is more marked in grandes écoles and non-university courses (+26.6% in 5 years) than in universities (+3.2%). The leading region of origin for mobile foreign students in France is North Africa (23%), followed by Sub-Saharan Africa and the European Union (both 20%), then Asia-Oceania (17%). There has been a slight decline in the number of Chinese students, and a marked increase in the number of Italian and Ivorian students (source MENESR ).
• The number of French students on degree-granting mobility programs has been rising steadily since 2008, reaching 78,758 in 2014, an increase of 31% in 3 years (source UNESCO).