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Article: ARGENTINA: FOREIGN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS FLOCK TO BUENOS AIRES.
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- Interpress Service
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- November 16, 2007
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By Marcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, Nov. 15, 2007 (IPS/GIN) -- Thousands of young foreign students are enrolling in the University of Buenos Aires, one of Latin America's most prestigious universities.
This public university -- which was the alma mater of four of Argentina's five Nobel Prize winners -- was chosen by more than 4,600 of the nearly 24,000 students who have come to Argentina for undergraduate and postgraduate academic studies, according to a report by the Ministry of Education.
Between January and October, the University of Buenos Aires Web site was visited nearly half a million times by foreigners, mainly from Brazil, ...