Current Trends Amongst Indian Students Going to Study Abroad

Current Trends amongst Indian students going to Study Abroad

If you are curious about or want to know the accurate number of Indian students, actually going abroad to major study destinations (Canada, US, Australia, UK and NZ) in the last decade, then you have hit the right blog.

Some pertinent observations based on the facts and figures:

• It is clearly observed that there is a steady, and continuous increase in the number of students going to Canada.
• According to CBIE, "In 2017, 75% of the international students in Canada were pursuing post-secondary studies of which 57% were studying in a university program."
• For Canada, positive factors for Indian students would be: Post study work visas, Better chances of Permanent residency after study and post-study work visa compared to all other major study destinations.
• You can observe the gradual decline of student visas issued for the US in the year 2018.
• You may be surprised with an increase in the number of students opting for the UK. Just imagine the crowds if UK were to start offering Post-study work visa too.
• The number of students going to New Zealand is still below 8000 for this year as well.

Data Sources:

• Australia: homeaffairs.gov.au
• Canada: open.canada.ca
• USA: travel.state.gov
• UK: gov.uk
• NZ: immigration.govt.nz