According to the latest Open Doors report from the Institute on International Education, in the 2022-23 academic year, there were 102,366 scholars from foreign nations teaching at colleges and universities in the United States. More than a third of these international scholars were from India or China.
There were 3,213 scholars from sub-Saharan African nations teaching at U.S. colleges and universities in the 2022-22 academic year. This was up more than 44 percent after nearly a 50 percent increase in the prior year. Scholars from sub-Saharan African nations made up only 3.1 percent of all foreign scholars teaching in the United States that year. But this was up from 2.4 percent the year before.
There were 883 scholars from Nigeria teaching in the U.S. during the 2022-23 academic year. This was by far the highest total from any nation in sub-Saharan Africa. Ghana sent 383 scholars to teach in the U.S. that year. South Africa, Kenya, and Ethiopia all sent at least 250 scholars to teach in the Unites States that year. Uganda and Zimbabwe were the only other sub-Saharan African nations to send more than 100 scholars to teach at colleges and universities in the United States.
