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[h=2]As applicants from China steadily decline, there’s been a sharp uptick of students from India looking to study in the U.S., a report says.
[/h] International applications to U.S. graduate schools grew by 2% this year, marking a 10[SUP]th[/SUP] straight year of gains, according to a report by the Council of Graduate Schools that The Wall Street Journal highlighted this week.
What’s most interesting about the report is the steady decline in applicants from China even as college campuses see a sharp uptick in applicants from India.
The report doesn’t say much about what’s driving the rise other than the fact that the U.S. has some of the best colleges in the world. However, one clue is perhaps to look at India’s higher education system, which has struggled to keep up with the country’s growing population and rising demand for skilled workers.
Another factor impacted by the economy is the ability of Indian students to pay for school. International students are typically not entitled to the many financial aid options available to U.S. citizens. That forces them to rely mostly on merit-based scholarships, which are themselves scarce and hard to get, in order to afford the pricey investment. However, as the Indian economy accelerates and creates more prosperity for the middle class, that should enable more students to be able to pay their own way through school in the U.S.
http://fortune.com/2015/07/01/behin...ts-at-top-u-s-universities/?xid=yahoo_fortune
[/h] International applications to U.S. graduate schools grew by 2% this year, marking a 10[SUP]th[/SUP] straight year of gains, according to a report by the Council of Graduate Schools that The Wall Street Journal highlighted this week.
What’s most interesting about the report is the steady decline in applicants from China even as college campuses see a sharp uptick in applicants from India.
The report doesn’t say much about what’s driving the rise other than the fact that the U.S. has some of the best colleges in the world. However, one clue is perhaps to look at India’s higher education system, which has struggled to keep up with the country’s growing population and rising demand for skilled workers.
Another factor impacted by the economy is the ability of Indian students to pay for school. International students are typically not entitled to the many financial aid options available to U.S. citizens. That forces them to rely mostly on merit-based scholarships, which are themselves scarce and hard to get, in order to afford the pricey investment. However, as the Indian economy accelerates and creates more prosperity for the middle class, that should enable more students to be able to pay their own way through school in the U.S.
http://fortune.com/2015/07/01/behin...ts-at-top-u-s-universities/?xid=yahoo_fortune
