Market intelligence for international student recruitment from ICEF

13th Dec 2011

New destinations emerging for Indian students

For many years Indian students, the world's largest group of overseas students after the Chinese, rarely looked beyond Britain, the US and Australia for higher education. But changes in visa rules, fraudulent institutions that prey on unsuspecting foreign students and lack of opportunities to work after graduation in the UK and US have prompted students to seek newer, more welcoming destinations including Canada, Europe and Singapore.

See "INDIA: New destinations for students heading abroad" in University World News. Source: University World News

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