While the number of students going abroad had reduced during Covid, now this number has increased almost three times. In response to a written question in the Lok Sabha, the Education Ministry said that according to the information provided by the Bureau of Immigration (BOI), people went abroad for the purpose of education in the last five years.
The number of students was 2933899 (about 30 lakh), whereas during the Covid pandemic in 2020, only 259655 students were able to go to foreign universities to study, whereas thereafter this number has increased every year. Is increasing rapidly. In 2023, more than three times 892989 students went abroad for studies.
US is the first choice for studying abroad
In 2019, 586337 students went abroad. In 2020 this number decreased to only 259655. After that, 444553 students went in 2021, 750365 students went in the next year 2022 and in 2023 this number became the highest at 892989. However, after the National Education Policy 2020, now foreign campus studies have started in India also.
These universities are the choice of students
- of America (MIT), Stanford University, University of California, Harvard University, California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
- University of Toronto, University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada
- University of Melbourne, University of Sydney, Australia
- England’s University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, Imperial College London
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