African Scholars Teaching at U.S. Colleges and Universities

In the 2004-05 academic year, there were 89,634 foreign scholars teaching at American colleges and universities. The number of foreign scholars was up 8.1 percent from the previous year. Nearly 80 percent of these foreign scholars are from either Europe or Asia. Only 2,338, or 2.6 percent, are from Africa. The number of African scholars teaching at American colleges and universities was up 3.6 percent from a year earlier. Not unexpectedly, the number of scholars from the Arab nations of North Africa teaching in the U.S. declined significantly after September 11, 2001. But still, nearly one third of the African scholars teaching in the United States are from the Arab nations of North Africa. Today there are about 1,600 scholars from black African nations currently teaching at U.S. colleges and universities.

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