Foreign students for study in India nosedives from 13,961 in 2013 to 3,737 in 2014

The drastic drop in the arrival of foreign students in India is a matter of concern because it is an indirect indication that the quality of education has deteriorated. As per data from the home ministry, the number of students from the top eight countries — the US, the UK, Germany, France, South Korea, Australia, China and Singapore — has fallen from 13,961 in 2013 to 3,737 in 2014. There had been a marginal increase in 2013 from 2012, when the number was 12,424.
This has been reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 24 November 2015.

While no single reason can be attributed to the sudden dip but, in the opinion of experts like Professor C N R Rao and Infosys co-founder N R Narayana Murthy, is to lay emphasis to improve the quality of institutions in order to attract more foreigners. There is a need to raise the standard of education to compete with global competition.
Incidentally, the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), was the only Indian institute to be ranked within the top 100 global ones and it had just 25 full-time foreign students in 2014.
During the past three years, students have come from over 160 countries. The decline is not just in those coming from countries ranked higher than India but even from countries such as Afghanistan and Bangladesh, and from many African countries.
Statistically,the number of students from Afghanistan fell from 6,508 (2013) to 5,738 (2014), from Bangladesh from 1,954 (2013) to 1,247 (2014) and Sri Lanka, from 2,502 to 1,492 in the corresponding period.

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