First-time enrolments of international students in US graduate schools rose for five consecutive years from 2009 to 2014, finds a report from the Council of Graduate Schools in Washington DC. The biggest year-on-year increases were in the physical and Earth sciences, up 20% to 16,235 first-time enrollees in 2014. The largest increase per nation was in the number of students from Brazil, which almost doubled its number of first-time US graduate-school enrolments to 1,134; India was up 27% to 21,889. However, first-time enrolments from Canada and China each fell by 1%, after previous annual increases of 3% and 5%, respectively. Jeff Allum, author of the report, says that the dip in enrolments from China might be a result of the nation's students taking advantage of their home country's investment in graduate schools. Meanwhile, a report from the Institute of International Education in New York found that overall international enrolments in US graduate schools rose by 6% to about 330,000 from 2013 to 2014. Nearly 80% of students from India were enrolled in science, technology, engineering and maths studies, as were 42% from China and one-fifth from the United Kingdom.