双语趣听精彩世界 第65期:中国学生心仪暑假目的地:哈佛大学
时间：2015-03-09 06:06:49
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彭博新闻社网站:中国学生齐聚波士顿,哈佛变身夏季朝圣地.
哈佛大学
Bloomberg.com: Chinese students have a new favorite summer destination: Harvard University.
So many students and their families are visiting Boston-area schools such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Tufts University that Hainan Airlines started direct flights to Boston from Beijing in June and increased the number from four to seven a week in July and August.
Tufts gets so many requests from large organized groups that it runs separate tours for them.
The surge in interest underscores both the prestige of obtaining a degree from Boston-area colleges and the
burgeoning1 affluence2 of China's middle class. The number of Chinese students in the
metropolitan3 area almost tripled to 10,913 last year from 3,800 in 2009. That's faster than growth nationally, which more than doubled, that's according to the Institute of International Education in New York.
Harvard in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Northeastern University and Boston University in Boston, each ranked in the top 25 schools hosting international students in the 2012-2013 academic year. Chinese make up the largest segment of foreign students at 27 percent
Jen Simons, associate director of admissions said Tufts has seen an increase in both Chinese visitors and applications to attend the university in the Boston suburb of Medford.
Prospective4 students often come during the summer as part of organized groups of 20 or 30. Simons said the request for special groups already has "surpassed all of the requests we had last summer.
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