調查顯示 赴美留學的學生人數有所下降
The number of newly arriving international students declined an average 7 percent in fall 2017, with 45 percent of campuses reporting drops in new international enrollment, according to a survey of nearly 500 campuses across the country by the Institute of International Education.
根據美國國際教育協會對全美近500所高校的一項調查顯示，2017年秋季新入學的國際學生數量減少了7%，有45%的高校報告稱新入學的國際學生數量出現下降。Experts cited an uncertain social and political climate in the United States as part of the reason for the decline in enrollment.
專家提出，美國社會和政治環境的不確定性，是入學人數下降的原因之一。"It's a mix of factors," said Rajika Bhandari, head of research for the institute. "Concerns around the travel ban had a lot to do with concerns around personal safety based on a few incidents involving international students, and a generalized concern about whether they're safe."
該協會的研究負責人拉吉卡·班達裏表示：“這是多種因素的結合。由於發生了幾起涉及國際學生的事件，人們對旅行禁令的擔憂很大程度上是對人身安全的擔憂，也有對自己是否安全的一種普遍擔憂。”
Another reason for the decline is increasing competition from countries like Canada, Britain and Australia, said Allan E. Goodman, president of the institute.
協會主席艾倫.E.古德曼稱，該數據下滑的另一個原因，是來自加拿大、英國、澳大利亞的競爭在不斷加強。The drop in new students signals potential financial difficulties for some small universities that have come to rely on money from foreign students, who provide an infusion of $39 billion into the United States economy each year.
新入學學生的下降，預示着一些依靠外國學生、規模不大的高校有可能出現財政困難。外國學生每年可以爲美國經濟貢獻390億美元。
Particularly hard hit are campuses in the Midwest, according to the institute.
據該機構透露，中西部的高校受到的打擊尤其嚴重。At the University of Iowa, overall international enrollment this fall was 3,564, down from 4,100 in 2015.
今年秋季，艾奧瓦大學的國際學生入學總數從2015年的4100人下降到了3564人。Downing Thomas, the university's dean of international programs, said that some other schools in the Big Ten are also experiencing declines, and none are seeing the rapid increases of the recent past.
艾奧瓦大學國際項目主任唐寧·托馬斯表示，十大聯盟中的其他高校也遭遇了人數下降，沒有一所學校還有不久前的那種快速增長。While Iowa primarily lost Chinese students, the University of Central Missouri experienced a sharp decline this year in students from India, said Mike Godard, vice provost for enrollment management.
艾奧瓦大學減少的主要是中國學生，而中密蘇里大學負責招生工作的副教務長麥克·戈達德則表示，該校今年的印度學生數量驟降。In the fall of 2016, the Warrensburg, Mo., university had 2,638 international students. This fall it has 944.
2016年秋季，中密蘇里大學共有2638名國際學生。而今年秋季只有944名。
