Among Caribbean Nations, Jamaica Sends the Most Students to U.S. Colleges and Universities

Last week JBHE reported that the annual report of the Institute of International Education found that there were 37,062 students from Africa at U.S. colleges and universities in the 2009-10 academic year. But not all foreign black students are from the African continent. In the 2009-10 academic year there were more than 13,000 students from Caribbean nations attending colleges and universities in the United States. In all probability, many of these students are black.

Jamaica sent 3,530 students to U.S. colleges and universities in the 2009-10 academic year, the most of any Caribbean nation. Trinidad and Tobago ranked second with 2,402 students in the United States. Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and the Bahamas each sent more than 1,000 students to higher educational institutions in the U.S.

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