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The Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT) has gone from receiving 265 international students in the 2016-2017 academic year to receiving 314, in the 2017-2018 academic year, which represents an increase of 20%.
While in the 2016-2017 academic year 221 Erasmus and 44 from Ibero-America arrived;
In this course they will study at the 261 Erasmus Polytechnic and 53 from Latin America, which makes a total of 314 foreign students this year.
The most notable increase of foreign students occurs during the first semester although it is at this point, they point out from the International Relations Office of the University, when part of these students decide to extend their stay in the UPCT during the rest of the course.
During the second semester of this course, the UPCT receives a total of 122 students, of which 87 are Erasmus, 16 of them come from Italy, 14 from France, 11 from Poland and 10 from Germany, among others.
Two students from the Golondrina program also arrive from Argentina;
30 young people from Latin America, most of them from Mexico and Argentina and 3 from India, who will do internships at the School of Architecture and Building Engineering within the framework of the collaboration agreement that the School has with universities in that country .
Apart from that, the UPCT will receive 26 students from KA107 this year, an Erasmus program with countries that do not belong to the European Union.
The Vice Chancellor of Internationalization, José Manuel Ferrández has received together with the General Secretary of Employment, Universities and Business Maria Casajús young people from other countries who will study this semester in the UPCT.
Ferrández has highlighted the remarkable increase of foreign students who perceives the University, where until a few years ago only 200 foreign students were received, while now they are "close to 580", he said, adding that annually about 800 young people are leaving. the UPCT to attend a four-month period abroad.
"Our goal was to finish the legislature reaching a thousand mobilities," he said.
The UPCT has already initiated contacts in Asian countries such as China and Korea to attract students there because 'it can be a very important niche for students'.
In addition to that, Ferrández has highlighted that the UPCT is the second Spanish university that offers the most scholarships for students from the Dominican Republic.
'We are promoting the internationalization not only of the students, but also of the professors so that the C1 can be taken out.
We want to be a university of international excellence. '
In relative terms, the UPCT is the eleventh university in Spain (out of 76) with the highest percentage of Erasmus students in the total number of students and the twelfth in the presence of foreigners enrolled, according to the latest report 'The Spanish University in figures', published by CRUE
Source: UPCT
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