U.S. Visas Granted To Indian Students Rise By 50 Percent

After a break of two years, a degree from the American University is once again gaining its popularity. The visas that are being issued to Indian students have in fact increased by a fifty percent from the last year. The trend that has been followed for the last two years can now be bucked up [...] Read more »

US Doubles Visa Issuance To Indian Students In 2012

America is facilitating enrolment of more Indian students and issuance of student visas went up by 50 per cent in 2012 as compared to the previous year. The country welcomed students particularly in high quality courses of mathematics, science and technology, Jonathan C Scott, Vice-Consul, Consular Section, US Embassy, New Delhi, told reporters. Asked if [...] Read more »

Visa issuance to Indian students by US doubled in 2012

America is facilitating enrolment of more Indian students and issuance of student visas went up by 50 per cent in 2012 as compared to the previous year. The country welcomed students particularly in high quality courses of mathematics, science and technology, Jonathan C Scott, Vice-Consul, Consular Section, US Embassy, New Delhi, said. Asked if America [...] 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 »

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-bound Indian students beware

Indian students may need to rely on their own investigation to avoid joining fraudulent US universities that are able to lure them because of a weak regulatory structure recently slammed by the audit arm of the US Congress. Over 450 Indian students face the threat of deportation after the CEO of their institution, Herguan University [...] Read more »

US bill to hike visas for science grads; Indian students to gain

Senator John Cornyn’s initiative will benefit Indian students New York: Senator John Cornyn, the senior Republican on a panel that oversees immigration, introduced a bill on Tuesday that would make an additional 55,000 visas available each year for foreign graduates with Master’s and doctoral degrees who have studied at US universities. The bill, called the [...] Read more »

Important: Fast approaching deadline for TOEFL Scholarship Program in India

Ten TOEFL® Scholarships will be awarded to Indian students for undergraduate or graduate study in 2012 at a college or university listed in the TOEFL® Destinations Directory. Ten TOEFL® Scholarships will be awarded to Indian students for undergraduate or graduate study in 2012 at a college or university listed in the TOEFL® Destinations Directory. Four [...] Read more »

Funds for foreign study? Take your pick

Despite global economic uncertainty, Indian students hoping to study abroad have more options when applying for different scholarships this year. Various scholarships are open for applications at the moment, most of them for masters programmes at universities abroad. The British Council, which handles some scholarships for UK university aspirants, is in the process of launching a [...] Read more »

Indian students still keen on studying abroad despite strict visa norms, slowing economy

Prashant Bhonsale, country head of Credila Financial Services, confirms the rising trend in the number of loan applicants. “In our experience the number of students applying to study abroad is rising. There is definitely an uptrend” Signs of slowing global economy, strict visa norms in the UK with scrapping of student visa scheme and stringent [...] Read more »