The graphs below show the enrolments of overseas students and local students in Australian universities over a ten year period. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The graphs illustrate the numbers of foreign and native

students

who attended universities in Australia between 2001 and 2010, separating the information into total and commencing. At a first glance,

although

the

number

of enrolled overseas

students

has markedly increased, the Australian

students

' figures are much higher over the 10-year period.

According to

the first graph, in 2001, approximately 12,000

of

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commencing non-Australians had registered with the universities,

while

the total

number

was 20,000. Afterwards, the popularity of studying in Australia

had

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dramatically increased and reached

the

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peak

at

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over 80,000

students

in 2010,

while

commencement had moderately increased over nine years.

Finally

, it began to slowly climb in the

last

year of the period. Compared with the

second

graph, the total

number

of local

students

in 2001 was 2 times higher than that of foreigners, which was 40,000.

In addition

, it significantly went up to over 80,000

students

in the

next

7 years, before remaining flat in the

last

4 years.

However

, the

number

of commencing

students

immediately jumped in the first year, from around 19,000 to 22,000

students

.

Furthermore

, there was a fluctuation over the following period and it never got higher than in 2002 or dipped lower than in 2001.