Reply #34: They seem to want western education....

[54anickel]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2501914

U.S. schools compete for Saudi students (Saudi royals paying the tuition)

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The program will quintuple the number of Saudi students and scholars here by the academic year's end. And big, public universities from Florida to the Kansas plains are in a fierce competition for their tuition dollars.

The kingdom's royal family - which is paying full scholarships for most of the 15,000 students - says the program will help stem unrest at home by schooling the country's brightest in the American tradition. The U.S. State Department sees the exchange as a way to build ties with future Saudi leaders and young scholars at a time of unsteady relations with the Muslim world.