1.27 million Chinese students studying abroad, world's largest contingent...

China has the largest number of overseas students in the world, with a record 1.27 million studying abroad at the end of 2010, according to the latest statistics from the Ministry of Education.

About 285,000 of them were new students who began their overseas studies last year, up 24 percent over 2009, said the ministry.

Self-financed students now make up the largest group of those going overseas, and among more than 100 countries they selected, more than 90 percent of the students chose to study in the top 10 destinations - the United States, Australia, Japan, the United Kingdom, South Korea, Canada, Singapore, France, Germany and Russia.

Dozens of US colleges and universities are seeing a surge in applications from students in China. More...

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