The 20 most popular language schools

Which language schools do you think are the most popular in the world? Here is the answer from the Swedish students in 2016.

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A while ago I wrote an article about the most popular schools in the world – based on statistics from CSN about where Swedish students studied in 2016. There universities and colleges dominated the list. Now I have received more statistics from CSN showing the most popular language schools in 2016. Here is the top 20:

	Language School	Country	City	CSN-students in 2016
1.	Speakeasy Language School	Spain	Barcelona	188
2.	ISI Language School	Japan	Tokyo	86
3.	Die Deutschule	Germany	Berlin	67
4.	Kai Japanese Language School	Japan	Tokyo	63
5.	EF Int School of English	United Kingdom	London	61
6.	Sorbonne	France	Paris	56
7.	EF Int School of English	USA	Los Angeles	55
8.	Inter Cultural Inst of Japan	Japan	Tokyo	43
9.	EF Int School of English	USA	New York	42
10.	Nihongo Center	Japan	Kyoto	42
11.	EF International School of Spanish	Spain	Barcelona	41
12.	EF Centro Int de Idiomas	Costa Rica	Tamarindo	34
13.	EF Int School of English	United Kingdom	Brighton	33
14.	Accord Ec de langues	France	Paris	32
15.	Yoshida Inst of Japanese Language	Japan	Tokyo	32
16.	Don Quijote Barcelona	Spain	Barcelona	30
17.	Lexis Korea	South Korea	Seoul	30
18.	GLS Campus Berlin	Germany	Berlin	30
19.	Ole Languages	Spain	Barcelona	27
20.	Lanta Int Language School	Thailand	Koh Lanta	27

Barcelona wins, closely followed by Tokyo

Spain and Barcelona have always been popular with Swedish language students. In the early 21^st century close to 3500 Swedish students per year took Spanish language courses in Spain with CSN. Since then the numbers have gone down a lot to approximately 500 students per year. However Spain and Barcelona are still one of the most popular destinations for Swedish language travelers. This year Speakeasy outperforms all competition with a whopping 188 students. Almost 40% of all CSN-students to Spain and 102 students more than ISI in second place.

Japan and Tokyo are in second place here. The interest for Japan has increased a lot over the last ten years and Japan is now the biggest destination in the world for Swedish CSN-students, at least if you look at the number of student weeks. So it is not surprising with 5 Japanese language schools in the top 20.

Die Deutschule's third place ranking is impressive considering that they have no representation in Sweden that I know of and they don't have a Swedish version of their website. However they are much cheaper than their competition. I can also see a trend where more Swedish students arrange their studies on their own without the help of an agency.

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