The UK and the US have for long been the top destinations for Indian students looking for a foreign degree. However, it seems China will soon join that list too. According to a report by the MEA, in January 2012 there were over 8,000 Indian students studying in various Chinese universities. This year it is [...] Read more »
Indian students pull back from US; China races ahead
WASHINGTON: Fewer Indian students are studying in America these days. The number of students from India in the United States dropped for the second successive year even as there was a surge of Chinese students amid an overall increase of foreign students coming to America. The annual ”Open Doors” survey of international students in US released [...] Read more »
256% rise in Indian students going abroad in 10 years, study says
MUMBAI: Campuses in the West have for long been wooing young Indians, with education fairs, road shows and special admission campaigns nudging thousands to pick up brochures that give a peek into college life in Europe. While studying in Ox bridge still remains the highest academic aspiration among the youth here, between 2000 and 2009, the number [...] Read more »
Mad scramble for Indian students
Indian students keen to study abroad are being courted aggressively by countries such as France, Germany, Australia and Canada. The bait: lower fees than the US, an easier visa regime than UK’s and more scholarships and work opportunities than either. Traditionally, the US – with more than one lakh Indian students – and the UK [...] Read more »
US aims to allay visa fear to raise Indian student strength
JAMSHEDPUR: The US administration is working on multiple strategies that include efforts to erase existing “visa-related misconceptions” with a view to increase the strength of Indian students of higher learning in its soil. US consul general in Kolkata Dean Thompson, who was here on Friday, said the US visa rules were one of the most [...] Read more »
Indian students exposed to ?foreign languages as a norm
For school children in the UAE, home to more than 100 nationalities, learning foreign languages is not alien but the norm. Julie D’Souza’s children, now 12 and 16, who moved to the UAE five years back, have attended Indian curriculum schools all along. Like their peers, the D’Souza children learned three languages before the age [...] Read more »
Indian students eye Ivy League universities like Cambridge, Harvard and Oxford despite rupee depreciation
The depreciation of rupee is unlikely to lead to a drop in the number of Indian students seeking admissions to the most coveted global colleges abroad. The best schools are betting that an increase in financial aid for foreign students will propel the number of applications, including from India, this year. Stiff competition during admission [...] Read more »
Assistance for students aspiring to study abroad
CHENNAI: IDP Education, one of the biggest student placement organisations in the country for higher education in USA, Canada, Australia and UK, on Wednesday announced the launch of a ‘virtual fair’ for Indian students looking forward to study in the US and Canada. Starting from August 29 till September 9, the fair is a unique [...] Read more »
Winds of change: IIM students opt for destination Asia
AHMEDABAD: Reflecting a change in the landscape of global business trends, an increasing number of students of Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM-A) are sensing more business opportunities in the East than the West. When a list of destinations including universities in US, Europe and Asia was given to the students of the postgraduate programme [...] Read more »
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