Nearly one-fifth of Nigerian students in US higher institutions were studying engineering in the 2022/2023 academic year
What fields were Nigerian students in the US enroled in during the 2022/2023 academic year?
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields took centre stage, collectively constituting a substantial 61% of the Nigerian student body.
Egypt remained the lead African country with the highest number of international scholars in the US, with 942 recorded in the 2023/2024 academic session.
As of the 2023/2024 academic session, 4,679 international scholars in the United States of America are from Africa.
A total of 931 international scholars in the US as of the same session are from Nigeria.
Africa produced 4.2% of the international scholars in the US for the session under review.
China continued to lead globally with the highest number of international scholars in the US, with almost 21% of the international scholars as of 2023/2024.
China has been the lead country with the highest number of scholars in the US globally in the last 24 years.
India is next after China, with 17,735 scholars in US who hailed from India making up 15.8% of the population.
Only 1% of the scholars in the US are from Nigeria