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Insights about International Student Recruitment from India: Trends Before and During the Pandemic

12 August 20211 min readBy Rupesh Patel

This blog will be enough for you to get all the insights related to International Student recruitment from India to the 5 most popular English-speaking study destinations before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Some of the important observations:

  • You can see a constant rise in the numbers as well as the market share of Canada. Moreover, looking at the last few years it's steady near to the 50% and more than 1,00,000 Indian students each year.
  • The UK is the only country that has recruited more Indian students during the Pandemic year 2020 compared to 2019.
  • The UK's new PSW has attracted record numbers of Indian students.
  • Canada and the UK are constantly sending positive signals to international students by providing benefits like PSW for offshore digital education.
  • The new government of the US is sending positive signals to the international students and Pro-immigration policies.
  • Looking at the trends; Canada will continue to be at the top, the UK and the USA might have tough competition for 2nd and 3rd position.
  • Australia has a drop of 56% in visa grants during the year 2020 and a drop of 71% in visa grants during the Pandemic (Q2 to Q4, 2020).

You can see the Market Share % as well as Fresh student visa grants of the top five popular study destinations for 2014 to 2020 in various charts and tables.

Tags: Indian Students Study Abroad Pandemic Canada Australia UK
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