aspg-28-3146-1792155137 20261016125217 American Scientific Publishing Group admin@americaspg.com American Scientific Publishing Group Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Metaheuristics JAIM 2833-5597 2024 7 2 Sekar Kidambi Raju School of Computing, SASTRA Deemed University, Thanjavur 613401, India Marwa M. Eid Department of Communications and Electronics, Delta Higher Institute of Engineering and Technology, Mansoura 35111, Egypt This paper focuses on Exploratory Data Analysis of the data from the “International Student Demographics,”which is available on Kaggle and comprises data collected through the academic years, as well as total students, U. S students, undergraduate, graduate, non-degree students, and OPT columns. In the given work, the author intends to provide a chronological overview of the demographic data of international students. Operations like handling missing values and outliers were done to prepare the data for a more elaborate analysis. All descriptive analyses during the study included time series plots and bar charts where time series was used to evidence key trends and distributions. The analyses of the research questions indicate that there has been growth in international student enrollment over the decades, particularly in undergraduate and OPT student categories, with influences from world events such as COVID-19 and the alteration of immigration policies. Country-wise contribution reveals that the maximum number of articles originated from East Asia and South and Central Asia, with a special focus on engineering, social sciences, and humanities. Solutions: The paper articulates the finality of trends affecting educational institutions and policymakers by focusing on the implications of international students’ demographics. Based on the findings above, future research directions are proposed to improve the findings and support evidence-based practice relating to international education. 2024 39 50 3146 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 10.54216/JAIM.070204 https://www.americaspg.com/journal/28/article/3146 https://www.americaspg.com/storage/31724001328.pdf