The Institution of International Education (IIE) in Vietnam on Feb. 23 announced that Vietnam ranks ninth among nations having the largest number of students studying at US’s universities with 13,112 students.

According to the annual Open Doors 2010 report of the US IIE, Vietnam comes second in terms of students at US community colleges.

IIE will organise a US education exhibition in Ho Chi Minh City on March 1 and another in Hanoi on March 4.

Last year, with 12,823 students, Vietnam ranked ninth in terms of the number of students at US’s universities, according to the IIE Open Doors 2009 report./.