NEW DELHI: A major chunk of Indian students going abroad prefer US as their destination. In the last seven months there has been a 38 percent increase in the number of candidates going there. In the fiscal year 2006-07 (October 2006 to September 2007) 38,274 student visas were issued. Correspondingly, between October 2007 and April 2008, 50,316 student visas were issued from across the country, according to a report in Times of India.
With a rising number of middle class in India being able to afford American university programs and schools actively recruiting them, Indians have become the largest group of international students in the US. According to the experts one of the main reasons for the increase in the flow of students is that US is now accepting the three-year bachelor degree program as a valid one for entry to their graduate schools. Earlier, the US accepted students in its graduate schools only after they completed 16 years of formal education (12+4).
Indian students were required to study one year of post-graduation before they could take any entrance test to American universities. The change in rule was targeted towards opening the doors of higher studies in American varsities to a massive Indian pool of BA, BCom, BSc degree holders.
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