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One-point-two million international students attended American colleges and universities in 2016. That is an increase of (1) from the year before and the highest number ever. But the steady growth in the number of international students may not last. Applications from foreign students for the next school year are down.

A new report by the American Association of College Registrars and Admissions Officers says (2) of U.S. colleges reported fewer international applications. The number of undergraduate applications from countries in the Middle East fell by 39 percent. Michael Reilly is the association’s executive director. He said there may be fewer applicants because some people see America “becoming (3) of international students.”

Wim Wiewel is president of Portland State University in Oregon. He said his school saw a (4) reduction in applications from India for the new school year. Most of the decrease, he said, is because of recent monetary changes in India. But he said some parents also worry about their children’s safety after several recent attacks on Indian immigrants in the U.S. In the worst attack, two engineers from India were shot last month at a (5) in the state of Kansas.

Wiewel recently traveled to Hyderabad in southern India to meet with 10 students already admitted to his school’s (6) program. The students’ parents worry about their safety.

At Portland State, about 1,900 of the school’s nearly (7) students are from outside the United States. Students from outside Oregon pay about three times the $8,000 tuition paid by state residents.

Twenty-two-year-old Mahamadou Sissoko is from Mali in West Africa. He is finishing his senior year at Portland State University and is majoring in (8). As Sissoko sees it, he and other international students benefit by learning about American culture. But, he said, they help American students learn about (9). As a Muslim, he said Portland State gives him a chance to (10).