爱华网在艾奥瓦大学和艾奥瓦州立大学就读的外国学生中有一半是中国学生。2011年秋，艾奥瓦大学迎来了1,737名中国学生；艾奥瓦州立大学迎来了1,849名中国学生。
目前，在艾奥瓦州（Iowa）两所最大的公立大学就读的中国学生人数是有史以来最高的。2011年秋，艾奥瓦大学（Universityof Iowa）迎来了1,737名中国学生，占该校外国学生人数的一半。艾奥瓦州立大学（Iowa StateUniversity）也迎来了1,849名中国学生（占外国学生总数的54%）。这两所大学各有大约30,000名学生入学，其中外国学生占11%。
坐落在艾奥瓦城（Iowa City）的艾奥瓦大学以其包括国际写作班（International WritingProgram）在内的创作艺术、医学、法律、社会及行为学、空间物理学和古生物学见长。近5年来，来自中国的本科生的入学人数猛增，增幅超过了1700%。坐落在艾姆斯（Ames）的艾奥瓦州立大学以农业、工程、家政学、物理学、电脑技术和兽医学见长。自2007年以来，中国学生的入学人数增加了将近700%。
这两所大学的中文项目都颇具规模。学习中文的学生在艾奥瓦大学超过了240人，在艾奥瓦州立大学超过了170人。
在那里还可以通过其他一些机会学习中国文化。图为来自天津的艾奥瓦大学数学系学生王冠宇（音译）在大学孔子学会于学年期间开办的书法班上讲授书法。
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Chinese Students Attracted to Iowa Universities
10 February 2012Half of the international students at the University of Iowa andIowa State University (ISU) are Chinese. The University of Iowawelcomed 1,737 students from China in fall2011;ISUenrolled1,849.Each school has an international enrollmentof about 3,400 students (out of 30,000 on each campus).
Chinese students are studying at Iowa’s two largest publicuniversities in record numbers. The University of Iowa welcomed1,737 students from China in fall 2011 — halfitsinternational student population.The numbers aresimilar at Iowa State University (ISU), which enrolled 1,849Chinese students (54 percent of all internationalstudents).Each school has an enrollment of about30,000, and international students make up 11 percent of eachcampus.
The University ofIowa, located in Iowa City, is known for the creative arts —including its International Writing Program — medicine, law,social and behav ioral sciences, space physics andpaleontology.In the past five years, theenrollmentofChineseundergraduate students has soared by more than 1700 percent. ISU —in Ames, Iowa —has outstanding programs inagriculture, engineering, home economics, physical sciences,computer technology and veterinary medicine. Chinese enrollment isup by nearly 700 percent since 2007.
Both schools have significant Chinese-languageprograms.More than 240 students at the Universityof Iowa and 170 at Iowa State University studyChinese.
There are also other opportunities to learnabout the culture of China.Above, Guan Yu Wang, aUniversity of Iowa mathematics student from Tianjin, China, teachescalligraphy workshops during the academic year through theuniversity's Confucius Institute.
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