A recent focus on the proliferation of Americans studying in China—reinforced by President Obama’s announcement last month that the United States will send 100,000 students to China—has drawn attention away from a trend that has been accelerating for some time, USA Today reports: a rapidly growing number of Chinese students, particularly undergraduates, are coming to U.S. universities. In 2008, 98,510 Chinese graduate and undergraduate students “poured into U.S. colleges and universities, lured by China’s emphasis on academic achievement and the prestige of U.S. higher education.”