An annual report published by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Thursday revealed that the South now boasts the highest percentage of foreign students, with an increase of 8.5 percent reported by the agency in 2024.

The 2024 Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) report, produced annually to track the number of foreign students and what they are studying at various institutions, revealed there were a total of 1,582,808 active students in the SEVP program last year, about a 5.3 percent increase from 2023.

Of these students, the SEVP report revealed 471,293 studied at universities in the South, constituted 28.9 percent of the total, meaning more foreign students are now enrolled in southern universities than in any other geographic region tracked by ICE. Foreign st

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