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The number of foreign students is at an all-time high.

According to a Forbes article:

> The number of international students enrolled in U.S. universities declined again in 2018-19, extending the slide in enrolled international students to a second year in a row.

> That’s one of the main takeaways from the 2019 Open Doors Report on International Educational Exchange, which was released today by the Institute of International Education (IIE) and the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.

From: https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2019/11/18/inte...

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However, the linked report starts out:

> The number of international students in the United States set an all-time high in the 2018/19 academic year, the fourth consecutive year with more than one million international students.

> The total number of international students, 1,095,299, is a 0.05 percent increase over last year, according to the 2019 Open Doors Report on International Educational Exchange.

From: https://www.iie.org/en/Why-IIE/Announcements/2019/11/Number-...

The effect will only be seen in the future, smoothed over a few years.

Yes, in this case, probably the peak.

> The number of foreign students is at an all-time high.

Don't get me wrong but do you always look at historical numbers to predict the future?

I think you are being downvoted because... well, exactly what other methods did you have in mind? Using trend data to predict future data seems pretty run-of-the-mill to me.

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