Research On American Accepting Policy Of Foreign Students Since 1990s

Accompanied with the acceleration of process of economic globalization, the trend of globalization of higher education has become more and more obvious since 1990s. As the major type of globalization of higher education, foreign student education has experienced the tremendous development. And under this new background, the function of foreign student education has become more and more various, such as economic, political, cultural and fostering talented person, and even more it has become a powerful weapon to expand the effect for developed countries. Therefore, every country puts more attention on it, and develops foreign student education actively. So does China. Foreign student education in China has developed rapidly since 1990s, both in total enrollment and student level. However, the theoretic research is just on the first step, and the policy for the foreign students is not very good. So strive for a systematic theory, which can show the direction of our foreign student education clearly, is the most important thing we faced now.Foreign student education in America has developed rapidly since the World War Two, and it has become a special research field and finally come into being a systematic theory. America has accepted the most foreign students in the whole world for several years, and this good result is not only relied on its outstanding quality of higher education, advanced scientific and technologic level, and the prominent status of world trade center, but also depended on its policy and measures for foreign students. So, analyzing its foreign student policy can be helpful for us to form a rational policy for foreign students, also can enrich our theoretic system.This thesis first introduces the basic status of foreign students accepted by America since 1990s. Second, analyzes the backgrounds in both two periods before and after 9/11 seperately, and then concretely introduces the contents of visa policy, tuition policy, financial aid policy, admission policy and employment policy; and analyzes the changes of these policies and the causes of these changes. Third, analyzes the results of these policies, and also discusses the relationship between the accepting status of foreign students and these policies. In this process, this thesis also admites that there are three factors affecting the formation of these policies, they are: economic, political and cultural factors. Finally, this thesis forecasts the future trend of American foreign student educaton and policy, and brings forward several enlightenments to develop foreign student education in China.