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Looking to increase enrollments, European universities are challenging America's dominance in the foreign-student market.
Students listen to a pitch by a representative from the U. of Nottingham, in England, during a European higher-education fair in Kuala Lumpur. Universities in Europe are becoming more interested in, and more aggressive in pursuing, foreign students. (Photograph from Agence France-Presse)

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