A total of 1,294 Moroccan students have chosen the US as their study destination during the last academic year, said the higher education search platform Erudera.com in a recent report received by Hespress EN.
Compared to the last academic year, Morocco experienced a slight decline of 205 students in the US, from 1,499 in 2019/20 to 1,294 in 2020/21, added the same source.
A representative at Erudera.com , Alma Miftari believes that one of the reasons this drop occurred may be due to the inflation rate.
“The high prices are leading to drops in enrollments. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, undergraduate enrollment declined noticeably from fall 2019 to fall 2021, resulting in a net loss of a million students. In response, colleges have slashed payrolls, laying off hundreds of thousands of faculty and staff,” Miftari told Hespress EN.
However, an international student in the US pays $25,000-$35,000 per year at a public university, and $30,000-$45,000 at private colleges on average.
Moroccan students choose both options for their higher studies, public and private institutions.
Regarding expenses, the US gained an average of $45,290,000 from these students for one year, as 1,294 Moroccan students spent on average $35,000 each last academic year, added the same source.
The number of students from North African countries sent to the US by the 2020/21 academic year stood at, Egypt (3,672), Libya (563), Tunisia (534), Sudan (324), and Algeria (219).
The academic level of these 1,294 Moroccans studying in the US was:
Undergraduate – 583
Graduate – 433
Non-degree – 31
OPT – 247
According to Erudera’s data, the number of Moroccan students pursuing a non-degree program increased from 80 to 130 in 2019, thus marking a 63% increase, whereas the number of Moroccan students participating in optional practical training increased from 205 to 260 that year.
On the other hand, rankings showed that Morocco is the most popular study destination in North Africa among US students, followed by Egypt.
“American students have long seen Morocco as an excellent destination for study because of the hospitality of the Moroccan people, the richness and diversity of Moroccan culture, and the strong ties of friendship between the US and Morocco, built over 200 years,” the US Ambassador David Fischer had said, according to the same source.
Last year, the US managed to host over one million students for the 5th year in a row, according to the same source.
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