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France is continuing to attract foreign students, with 310,000 choosing to study here over 2015, a 7 percent jump compared to 2012.
This is enough to make France the fourth most popular study-abroad country, after the US, the UK, and Australia.
The stats come courtesy of Campus France, an organisation run by the French government that assists foreign students in their university applications.
The most popular places to study for foreign students were Paris at 59,179, followed by Versailles at 26,588, and Lyon at 24,150 (see map below).
Other notable cities included Creteil at 21,500, Lille at 15,500, and Toulouse at 15,000.
It was Nice that saw the biggest three-year jump (since 2012), with 25.4 percent more international students choosing the southern city (for a total of 9,202).