38% rise in Indian students going to US

[varun]

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/38_rise_in_Indian_students_going_to_US/articleshow/3112099.cms

38% rise in Indian students going to US
9 Jun 2008, 0155 hrs IST,Daniel P George & Hemali Chhapia,TNN

CHENNAI/MUMBAI: America continues to grow in stature as the most-favoured destination for Indian students with the last seven months showing a 38% increase in the number of candidates going there...

...According to the data released in November 2007, the international student population in the US rose from 5.64 lakh in 2005-'06 to 5.83 lakh in 2006-'07. And for the sixth year in a row, Indian students accounted for the largest chunk.

Following a 5% drop last year, the flow of Indian students to the US has gone up by 10% in this academic season.

According to a recent survey that monitors student flow, the population of Indian students in the US went up by 10% from 76,503 in 2005-'06 to 83,833 in 2006-'07; the number has doubled in the last decade.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

1. Well hell, the young people here can't afford to go to them anymore.

Might as well go ahead and train those Indian students so they can move right into all those engineering and IT "jobs that Americans won't do" with their H1B visas.

[greenvpi]

2. Why colleges allowed to accept them over...

more qualified American graduates? I know that when I went to grad school, I had plenty of friends that scored higher on the GRE than the Indian students but they weren't accepted. The quality of student dropped dramatically between my senior year and my first year of grad school.

[Vincardog]

3. The profs are not allowed to fail them because they pay the freight.

[DBoon]

4. yup. Out of state tuition

for public universities, it pays the bills

Taxpayers don't care if we have quality universities anymore.