America's community colleges suffer from an image problem at home, but some are experiencing a boom -- especially when it comes to foreign student enrollments.
Take Houston Community College. Thanks in part to an aggressive outreach campaign, the school has the highest percentage of international students of any community college in the U.S.
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Even if there were ivy on the walls of Houston Community College, it would wither in the Texas heat. The drab buildings of the school's Gulfton neighborhood campus are typical community college architecture, but that doesn't scare anyone away.
Sejal Desai came here after the college's fame spread -- via word of mouth -- to the small city she comes from in India.
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