Vietnam currently ranks first among countries in the Southeast Asia in the number of students in the United States.

The International Institute of Education (IIE) in Vietnam quoted its annual Open Door 2010 report as saying that the number of Vietnamese students enrolled at universities and colleges in the US during the 2009-2010 academic year increased slightly from 12,823 to 13,112, up 2.3 percent over the last year.

Also according to the report, the total number of international students in the US during the 2009-2010 academic year was 690,923. China now boasts the largest student enrollments in this country while Vietnam remains at the ninth place.

The Open Doors report is released by the IIE, the world’s leading non-profitable organisation in the exchange of culture and education.

Established in 1919, IIE is headquartered in New York and conducts annual surveys in the number of international students in the US, with support from the Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs under the US Department of State./.