Successful Foreign Student

INTRODUCTION Academic failing is not a problem which ruins your life, but success is a very important aspect of life to move on. Success is an achievement which the person has been planning for an interval of time. Foreign students are those who study abroad. Those students demand the academic success. While some foreign students suffer from difficulties in overcoming problems in their colleges, there are students hoping to raise themselves to be more successful. If a student is in his way to a regular success, success skills will lead him to be more successful, whereas, academic problems will force him to fall into the failing grave. When he wants to solve them, he just get back to his way to the regular success. This paper

Moreover, Davis’ data add that, in United States,

2,500 students from Saudi Arabia were enrolled in United States’ universities and colleges in the year of 2005 (1). After six years, the enrollments from Saudi Arabia increased highly reaching

50,000 students (Davis 1).

B. The Impact on Graduation Rates The impact of foreign students overseas is significant on the world-wide graduation rates.

Foreign students tend to be hard-working due to their desires to reach their goals. For instance, in Australia and Newzealand, they represent more than ten percent of the graduation rate every year (“Int. Students Boost” 1). However, the article state that, in United Kingdom, foreign students represent about twenty three percent of graduation rate of United Kingdom consisting ten percent bachelor-degree students and more than ten percent are master-degree students (1).

II. SUCCESS SKILLS FOR FOREIGN STUDENTS This section discusses the academic skills that make foreign students be more successful.

A. Note-Taking Skill One of the best methods foreign students should use to be more successful is

Social Integration Challenges Social integration challenges are observed in the all major educating countries on foreign students. United Kingdom has foreign students that felt less than welcome with more than a half of all foreign students (Schulmann and Choudaha 2). Schulmann and Choudaha state that lack of social integration leads to isolation which distract the students completely from reaching the success in college; however, universities handle this problem (2). Universities can handle this problem by making the students meet face to face and socialize (Schulmann and Choudaha 2).

For instance, Schulmann and Choudaha give an example about the University of East London in United Kingdom which establishes trips with the new international students in the first few days of freshman year (2). Moreover, University of Hull in United Kingdom created a program called Go-connect that forces the isolated and lonely students to socialize with other students in campus (Schulmann and Choudaha 2).

CONCLUSION

In brief, this paper showed what the foreign students’ situation was in their trends and in the impact of graduation rates in different countries, the success skills that lead them to be