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Foreign students' own criteria
Every year, at the expiration of residence permit, the foreign
student must ask for a new one. Since the beginning of the 90s,
after the French Council of State's decisions unfavourable to foreign
students, more power to control " the reality and the seriousness
of the studies followed by foreign students " has been given to
the Prefecture authorities.
We shall detail all the aspects concerning the administrative formalities
of entrance and stay in France, in the second part of this guide.
Who are you ? Some figures
159 000
foreign students in higher education establishments in 1999-2000
in metropolitan France, 128 722
in a university, that is 9,2 % of all students in France (13,5
% in 85/86 and only 8,5 % in 97/98) :
62 637 of them are from
Africa (49 %) - North Africa included (28 %) (they were respectively
58 % and 28 % in 85/86) ;
39 065 of them come from
the EU and Eastern Europe (30 %) (They were 19 % in 85/86) ;
17 382 of them come from
Asia ;
9 328 of them come from
North and South America ;
191 of them come from Oceania.
51 % of them all are girls
(they were only 34 % in 85/86)
The twelve nationalities the most widely represented in the
French universities are : Morocco (17 675), Algeria (12 225),
Tunisia (5 610), Germany (5 354), Senegal (4 039), Italy (3
798), Spain (3 561), Cameroun (3 210), the United Kingdom (3
111), Greece (2 526), Lebanon (2 484) and the United States
(2 368).
Source of information :
information note 01-22 " Les étudiants étrangers à l'Université
" published in May 2001 by the Direction de la programmation
et du développement du ministère de l'Education nationale (Information
Department of the Education Ministry) (available on the Internet
: www.education.gouv.fr/pub/edutel/dpd/ni0122.pdf).
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