More Indian students seek admission in US

[OhioChick]

WASHINGTON: Reversing recent trends, prospective graduate students from India seeking admission in US institutions increased eight percent in 2011 after increasing just one percent in 2010, according to a new survey.

Ahead of India, however, were China which recorded double-digit increases in applications (21 percent) and the Middle East and Turkey (16 percent), according to the survey by Council of Graduate Schools (CGS).

Overall the number of prospective international students increased 11 percent between 2010 and 2011 with the rate of increase for fall 2011 outpacing that of the last four years.

Offers of admission to prospective graduate students from India too rose 8 percent in 2011, the first increase to occur since 2007, the survey noted.

More: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/nri/us-canada-news/More-Indian-students-seek-admission-in-US/articleshow/9664351.cms

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1. Population refugees?

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2. Wake up, America... this is a problem.

When most people here in the US cannot afford higher education, tuition is increasing every year, unemployment and foreclosures are on the rise month after month... the future of this country has a very bleak outlook.

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3. Universities like to bring in international students

Namely because they tend to be more upper crust and pay full tuition without financial aid (at least not from US sources).