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India posts highest growth in sending students to US: Survey

Indian students to US grow by 12.3% from 165,918 in 2015-16 to 186,267 in 2016-17

Harvard University
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Harvard University

Vinay Umarji Ahmedabad
Despite a stricter immigration regime under United States of America president Donald Trump, the fall of 2017 has seen India post the largest growth in a number of students being sent to the US for studies.

As per the Fall 2017 International Student Enrollment Hot Topics Survey by Institute of International Education (IIE) in cooperation with other US-based educational bodies, as against a 6.8 per cent growth by China, India was up by 12.3 per cent.

"For the third year in a row, the largest growth was in the number of students from India, primarily at the graduate level and in