About 100 new Saudi Arabian students are enrolling this summer at the University of Arizona. The added enrollment could signal the reverse of a post-September 11th trend of declining international students in the United States.
The students are part of a new large-scale scholarship program by the Saudi government.
It'll send about 6,000 students to American universities this year after just 1,442 Saudi students had visas to study in the US in 2004.
About 80 of the students are already at the U of A.
They're enrolled in English-immersion classes before they start their academic programs in the fall.
After 9-11, new federal procedures and delays in obtaining US visas caused a decline in foreign students in the United States. |