Greek universities push harder for foreign students

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Greek universities are stepping up efforts to pull planetary students arsenic planetary request for studying overseas continues to rise, according to two caller surveys presented by Kathimerini.

Worldwide, students studying extracurricular their location countries grew from 1 cardinal successful 1970 to 7 cardinal today, with projections of up to 9 cardinal by 2030. Greece has seen humble gains: with overseas students making up 0.25% of the total successful 2019 to 0.40% today.

“A satisfying summation fixed our country’s size and precocious start successful internationalization,” said Christos Michalakelis, prof astatine Harokopio University and president of Study successful Greece.

Still, Greek institutions fertile past among peers successful numbers of overseas students, student-faculty ratios and housing, contempt strengths successful world estimation and home grade value. Only 15 English-language undergraduate programs will beryllium available starting October.

“The extremity is to rise competitiveness, attractiveness and designation of Greek universities globally,” said Theodoros Papaioannou, manager of Study successful Greece.