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IMKHNATION VI STUD) \ IS The h :\ students ei ing national holders to get educatlO la! b at 1 t to the days ol the Roman Republic, when it was fairly common for c line scholars to iournC] U Athens and Rhodes to Study under the famou

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Interna: 1 students are not a novelty at Illinois. T h e first h »tudent mi ot! r lands came to I rhana in 1S70—one from Armenia and one from •mi. v. Re rnizing that foreign students have special counseling no the University in 1 —with 50 international students in residence—became on of the first to have special faculty adviser for foreign students. Although h: function of giving counsel to students from other countri< remains the ime. th ulty member now has the title of Director. T h e Office of For ign tudent Affairs. T h e United Stata whole now has more than 50,000 international stuent tributed among its colleges and universities. : T presence of international students at a college is of great value in nil the educational experiences of all the students. T h u s , the University Illinois takes pride in its large student population from countries outside the I ted Stat For many years. Illinois has ranked sixth among all coll es an. iniv cities in the nation which foreign students attend. In 1960-61, more than 1.000 st idents from some 80 foreign countries were enrolled on the I rbana c mpus. T h e largest numbers came from India. Nationalist China. ( nada, and Colombia, in that order. About \ per cent of the foreign students at the University of Illinois an luate studies. Technical and scientific fields attract the greatest numbers; r almost per cent are specializing in engineering, and following that come the al scien md humaniti< . the physical and natural sciences, and commerce and agriculture. Among the foreign students enrolled, men outnumber women by nine to one

The Offi of Foreign Student Affairs begins its work with the international ident before he leaves his homeland, continues it through his I niversity career.

and frequently continues its interest after he has completed his studies and re' irned home. Among its services to international students are: legal advice (im': tion and other federal regulations) ; financial aid; alien income tax matters;

ranee problems; housing placement; and advice on personal problems. It provides neral orientation to the University and community, and directs a number of activitu designed to I- en the "cultural shock" so often fell by students

on rri al in a Jtran • land. T h e ( )fli< e helps both students and the I niversits b\

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