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August 25th, 2006, 08:07 PM
Australia wins race in magnetizing Indian students
NEW DELHI: The U.S, U.K and Australia are competing with each other to woo Indian students for their countries, Times of India reports.
Of late, the three countries have reported a huge rise in the number of Indian students enrolling in their universities. Though U.K. and Australia have had notable gains, U.S remained the hot spot.
In the financial year 2006, between October 2005 and July 2006, the U.S. gave out 25,189 student visas out of a total of 292,027, an increase of 33 percent, the U.S. embassy said.
Between January-August 2006, the U.K. let in 17,584 Indian students into over 100 universities, a jump of over 25 percent. Last year, Britain permitted 13,176 Indian students during the same time, the paper said.
But Australia is visibly the hottest destination. In 2005-06, Australia issued a total of 15,396 visas to Indian students, which is an incredible 54 percent jump over the previous year’s 10,000 visas.
While Australia has had the cleverest bunch of visas to magnetize studying-working Indians, the U.K’s success this year is mainly due to a proposal by Prime Minister Tony Blair in 2005, the paper said.
By 2010, Indians are expected to register highly with the U.S. Latest figures show that 30 percent of doctoral degrees in the U.S. is granted to foreign students while that number rises to 38 percent in the U.K. with most of them being Indians.
Source: http://www.siliconindia.com/shownews/32906
NEW DELHI: The U.S, U.K and Australia are competing with each other to woo Indian students for their countries, Times of India reports.
Of late, the three countries have reported a huge rise in the number of Indian students enrolling in their universities. Though U.K. and Australia have had notable gains, U.S remained the hot spot.
In the financial year 2006, between October 2005 and July 2006, the U.S. gave out 25,189 student visas out of a total of 292,027, an increase of 33 percent, the U.S. embassy said.
Between January-August 2006, the U.K. let in 17,584 Indian students into over 100 universities, a jump of over 25 percent. Last year, Britain permitted 13,176 Indian students during the same time, the paper said.
But Australia is visibly the hottest destination. In 2005-06, Australia issued a total of 15,396 visas to Indian students, which is an incredible 54 percent jump over the previous year’s 10,000 visas.
While Australia has had the cleverest bunch of visas to magnetize studying-working Indians, the U.K’s success this year is mainly due to a proposal by Prime Minister Tony Blair in 2005, the paper said.
By 2010, Indians are expected to register highly with the U.S. Latest figures show that 30 percent of doctoral degrees in the U.S. is granted to foreign students while that number rises to 38 percent in the U.K. with most of them being Indians.
Source: http://www.siliconindia.com/shownews/32906