Moroccan Students Lead Foreign Enrollment in French Universities, Study Finds

According to OrientXXI, which cites Campus France statistics, 12% of these students are attracted to engineering studies, a proportion higher than the average.

The good command of the French language, an essential prerequisite for succeeding in their studies in France, is one of the keys to the choice of young Moroccans. This asset allows them to open "fields of social practice whose stakes are related to the appropriation of material and symbolic capital," it is indicated.

And to add that "the distribution of functions between French and Arabic has, in the end, played to the detriment of the latter, and it is paradoxically the Arabization that has increased the value of the mastery of French by increasing its relative scarcity."

Moreover, "the hierarchy of fields will be reversed in favor of engineers from the 1980s onwards, due to the devaluation of legal studies in Morocco and law degrees, given the strong expansion of the number of their holders, a trend exacerbated by the dualism of higher education - selective engineering schools versus universities that record large outflows," notes the same source.