According to Open Doors 2004, the annual report on international academic mobility published by the Institute of International Education (IIE), the number of international students enrolled in U.S. higher education institutions decreased by 2.4% in 2003/04 to a total of 572,509, from 586,323 in 2002-03. The following data has been obtained from the India Country Fact Sheet in the Open Doors 2004 report.
But, India continues to remain the largest sending country of origin for the 3rd year, and the number of Indian students in USA climbed by 7% over the prior year, to a total of 79,736 in 2003/04, offsetting decreases from a number of other countries which experienced sharp declines. However, India's rate of increase in 2003/04 has slowed from the prior year's dramatic 12% growth. Total enrollments fell by 5% for students from China (still the second largest sending country with 61,765)
Of the 74,603 students from India, 79.0% were graduate students, 17.0% undergraduate and 4.0% other.
See my earlier post on the Open Doors 2003 report. I had also done a back of the envelope calculation to estimate the value of USA's higher education exports to India (via Mode 2 according to the GATS classification, which involves movement of students from one country to another for higher education) and arrived at a figure of over US$ 1 billion a year out of USA's total exports to India of about US$ 8 billion a year. I'm not sure if I'm missing something here, but if the US$ 1 billion is in the right ball park, that's a huge figure!
Surprisingly, I have not seen much of an analysis of this in the Indian press. It's worth investigating further.
In Kerala,Cochin RAJITLAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ( www.riths.com ) entered into collaboration with America's Top 4th ranking NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY ( www.ndsu.edu ) and offering M.S. in Software Engineering. The same institute is also entered into MoU with University of Wolverhampton , Wolverhampton, United Kingdom and offering Engineering Degree with a study abroad for just ONE YEAR!
Their Fees are very less, How is possible?
Posted by: Roshan | August 27, 2006 at 12:20 AM