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Costa Rica hosted 5,383 U.S. students in 2006-2007, a slight drop from the previous year, according to statistics available on the Web site of the Institute for International Education.
U.S. student participation in study abroad was up 8 percent in 2006-2007 from the previous year to a new record total of 241,791. The number of Americans studying abroad has  increased more than 150 percent during the past decade. The figures, covering academic year 2006-2007 for U.S. students abroad, were just released by the Institute in its annual Open Doors survey.
Costa Rica was in 10th place as a destination for U.S. students. The United Kingdom was in the top spot. That is where 32,705, some 14.6 percent of the total, chose to go.
Spain was in second place with 27,831 U.S. students, followed by France (12, 233), China (11,064, a 25 percent increase over 2005-2006), Australia (10,747), México (9461), Germany (7,355) and Ireland (5,785).
The Costa Rican totals were down 2.4 percent from the previous year, although Latin American in general attracted a steady 14 to 15 percent of all U.S. foreign students over the last 10 years, according to the survey.
Europe gets more than half, 57.4 percent in 2006-2007, out of the total of 241,791 students.
Open Doors 2008 found that American students are more frequently choosing non-traditional study abroad destinations, said the institute. The number of U.S. students studying in China, Argentina, South Africa, Ecuador and India each increased by more than 20 percent over the previous year, it reported.
This increase is fueled in part by an increase in new program opportunities, partnerships between higher education institutions in the United States and abroad, and a range of fields and program durations to accommodate the needs of an increasingly diverse study abroad population, the organization said.
According to the survey, the top three major fields of study of Americans abroad are the social sciences (21 percent), business and management (19 percent) and humanities (13 percent).
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