Arizona Universities

The Growing Importance of International Students at Arizona State University


Kent Hill, Ph.D.
Principal Research Economist, L. William Seidman Research Institute

Explores trends in the enrollment of international students at ASU and estimates the economic impact of these students. Enrollment of international students in fall 2017 increased to 10,268 students from 3,549 students in the fall semester of 2009; their economic impact was estimated at 2,210 jobs and $182 million in gross product.


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Kent Hill, Ph.D.
Kent Hill, Ph.D.
Principal Research Economist, L. William Seidman Research Institute

After completing his undergraduate degree in economics at Wake Forest University, Kent received his Ph.D. in economics from Rice University in 1979. He was an assistant professor at ASU from 1978 to 1983. After leaving the university for seven years, during which he worked in the research department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, he returned to ASU to teach in 1991. He joined ASU’s L. William Seidman Research Institute in 1999.


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