International Student - Top Source Countries

Top Source Countries

According at an estimate, every year, nearly 750,000 Chinese and 400,000 Indian students apply to higher education institutions around the world to study, indicating huge aspirations of students from these two countries to study abroad Top two source countries for international students are China and India with 441,186 and 170,255 globally mobile students respectively in 2008. The key drivers of mobility of Chinese and Indian students are quite similar. On the supply side, two key drivers are increasing prosperity, which enables the ability to afford foreign education, and rapid expansion of the system of higher education at the expense of quality. On the demand side, two key drivers are universities’ aggressive approach to recruiting students to compensate for budget cuts and access to a wider range of recruitment channels and service providers.

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