International Student Recruitment from India: Trends, Predictions and Possibilities

If you want to know the accurate number of Indian students actually going to study abroad to major destinations (Canada, UK, Australia, USA and NZ) since the last decade with market observation and future possibilities for popular study destinations, then you have hit the right blog.

Note: First time/fresh student visa grants data is used as it is the most appropriate data to measure current attractiveness of study destinations.

Insights on Indian students going to Australia

We can see a drop of about 33% in the Numbers for Australia in the last 5 months when compared to the same period in the previous year. Looking at the competition, we can safely predict a similar decline in the upcoming months.

Possible Ways to Increase Market share for the Australian sector

• It would be great if the Australian Government thinks about possible ways to provide more benefits to international students.
• UK offers PSW for 2 years after 1 year of Master's courses. Australia offers PSW for 2 years after 2 years of Master's courses.
• Canada offers PSW for 3 years after 2 years of courses and PSW for 1 year after 1 year of courses.

Insights on Indian students going to the UK

300.52% increase in Q4 (2019) indicate the possible big jump in all quarters of 2020 and onwards. The UK will overtake the USA in 2020 as the 2nd most popular study destination among Indian students.

Observations for Canada, US and NZ

• Canada is a steady and most popular study destination in India with more than 1,00,000 students' visa grants each year.
• For Canada, positive factors for Indian students are: Post-study work visas, Better chances of permanent residency after study.
• You can observe the gradual decline of student visas issued for the US in the year 2018 and major slow down in 2016 and 2017.