According to the latest data of the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), there are 23,795 Chinese students in private high schools in the US in the semester 2012/13. This number was only 4,503 in the semester of 2008/09. A Chinese student needs to pay at least US$250,000 for a four-year-long high school course and another US$200,000 for a four-year-long university course in the US. Reported China National Radio Network.