In general, more students are choosing to study overseas and many of them are choosing to study in countries within the region rather than in traditional destination countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. All regions of the world have been sending more students overseas for tertiary study, but the most significant growth has been in the Asian and Pacific region. In 2011, more than half of all international students came from countries in the region (see figure A). Available from http://74.220.213.127/rihcd/programmes/aims/ (accessed 7 May 2013).