Saudi Female Doctoral Students in Urban Universities

Saudi Female Doctoral Students in Urban Universities

Abstract

There are a high number of female students in the United States due to a fully funded Saudi Government scholarship. There was a 21% increase in the number of international students from Saudi Arabia. There were approximately 54,000 Saudi students in the United States, mainly sponsored by the Saudi government scholarship program that has been running for 11 years. Saudi Arabia was ranked position 4 in the world by the number of its students studying in USA (Iie.org, 2014).

The number of international students at learning institutions and universities in the United States amplified by 8% to a record high of 886,052 students in the 2013/14 educational year, endorsing once again that the United States relics…