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Yahoo
7 hours ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Why Aren't More International Students Choosing India's Booming B-Schools?
India is booming. The country's economy is among the fastest-growing in the world, and its top business schools are steadily rising in global rankings. Yet international students remain a rarity across India's higher education system — and especially in its business schools. A new report from education consultancy CarringtonCrisp explores why. The International India study, based on responses from 4,160 prospective business students across 22 countries, found that while 79% of respondents are open to studying abroad, only 8% consider India a likely study destination. That low interest persists despite strong perceptions of India's economy, visa accessibility, and welcoming environment. 'Despite the rapid growth of the Indian economy and the increasing prominence of its business schools, international students are rare, especially compared to the traditional education powerhouses of Europe, Australia, and North America,' says Andrew Crisp, the study's author and co-founder of CarringtonCrisp. 'The major issue is a lack of brand awareness, as well as an understanding of the advantages and benefits of studying in India.' The study underscores just how far India trails its global peers in attracting international talent. According to the All India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE), only 46,000 international students were enrolled across nearly 2,400 Indian institutions in the 2021-22 academic year — and more than a quarter of them came from neighboring Nepal. By contrast, the United Kingdom hosted more than 750,000 international students in 2022-23, Australia reported over 450,000 in 2023, and the United States reached a record high of more than 1.1 million in 2024. Recognizing the opportunity gap, the Indian government has taken steps to increase international enrollments. Institutions have been encouraged to admit up to 25% more students above their allotted domestic capacity, with those extra seats reserved specifically for international students. But converting that potential into growth requires understanding how India is perceived by prospective students around the world — and that insight formed the foundation of CarringtonCrisp's first International India report. The report found that one of the biggest barriers remains awareness: a full third of respondents said they couldn't name a single good Indian business school. Others cited concerns such as a preference for other countries (21%), lack of scholarships (19%), or discomfort with the idea of living in India while studying (17%). Still, the survey also revealed strengths Indian schools can build on. India was viewed as second only to the U.S. in terms of having a strong and dynamic economy (50% vs. 52%). It was also rated the most welcoming destination for international students (57%) and the easiest country in which to obtain a student visa (56%). Cost and geography also work in India's favor. Nearly half (45%) of respondents said India offers excellent value for a business degree, while 41% said travel to India would be affordable and convenient due to its proximity. Interest was highest among students in Nigeria (18%), the UAE (15%), and South Africa (15%). While long-term full-degree enrollment may be limited for now, international students expressed strong enthusiasm for shorter-term or hybrid engagements with Indian institutions. More than eight in ten respondents said they would be very or extremely interested in a joint degree between an Indian business school and one in their home country. Nearly as many said they would be drawn to studying a single module — up to three months — in India. Other attractive options included taking multiple short, intensive courses in India or pursuing a joint degree involving an Indian school and a partner institution in a third country. 'Building partnerships with institutions in other countries is a big opportunity for Indian business schools,' Crisp says. 'These programs can help schools build brand awareness, communicate the benefits of studying in India, and showcase the quality of their academic offerings.' India's top business schools have taken steps to increase their global reach. IIM Ahmedabad recently opened its first international campus in Dubai. The Indian School of Business (ISB) has expanded its collaborations with leading U.S. and European universities. And more Indian schools are pursuing international accreditations and climbing into global rankings, including those published by The Financial Times and Poets&Quants. But those efforts are still nascent when compared with more established global destinations. As the International India report makes clear, building international appeal will take time, consistency — and creative partnerships. Still, the data suggests there is growing interest, especially in models that allow students to 'sample' Indian education before committing to a full degree. The challenge for Indian schools will be converting that curiosity into enrollment. 'India has a strong story to tell,' Crisp says. 'Now it needs to be heard.' Read the full CarringtonCrisp report here. The post Why Aren't More International Students Choosing India's Booming B-Schools? appeared first on Poets&Quants. Solve the daily Crossword
Daily Mail
12 hours ago
- Business
- Daily Mail
Sadiq Khan goes to war with Keir Starmer over foreign student clampdown with London mayor telling PM UK should keep universities 'open'
Sadiq Khan today hit out at Keir Starmer 's plan to cut the number of foreign students coming to Britain in his latest clash with the Labour leadership. The London mayor used a visit to Ghana to say UK universities should remain 'open' to overseas students, after a new immigration clampdown was announced in May. It will see the amount of time post-graduate students can spend in the UK after completing their course cut from two years to 18 months. A new levy on income that universities generate from international students could also be introduced. It follows changes introduced by the former Conservative government in January 2024 that banned almost all international students from bringing dependents like spouses and children with them. In a written article for the radio station LBC's website, Sir Sadiq said the levy risked 'putting off young people from coming to cities like London and piling yet another burden on our strained higher education sector'. 'Closing our country to global talent would be a pointless act of immense economic self-harm, slowing down growth and leaving working people in every part of the UK worse off,' he said. 'Instead, we must make the argument for openness, confident in the immense contribution that international students make to our prosperity.' It is Sir Sadiq's latest attempt to distance himself from the Labour government, having also supported recent demands from backbench MPs to water down benefit cuts. He also criticised the PM for using the phrase 'island of strangers' in an immigration speech earlier this year. The difference between the number of people moving to the UK and leaving the country is estimated to have halved, in the biggest fall in net migration since the pandemic. The figure stood at an estimated 431,000 in the year ending December 2024, down 49.9 per cent from 860,000 a year earlier, the Office for National Statistics said. This is the biggest calendar-year drop since the early stages of the pandemic when net migration fell from 184,000 in the year ending December 2019 to 93,000 in the year ending December 2020. The latest decrease is the largest numerical drop on record and the ONS said the decline has been driven by falling numbers of people coming to work and study in the UK. Long-term immigration fell below one million for the first time in around three years. But Sir Sadiq said: 'Whilst we can and must make the economic argument for keeping our country open to global talent, I don't think it quite captures all that is at stake in this debate. The students who come to London don't just bring billions for our economy. They come with something that cannot be measured in currency alone: new ideas, different cultures and diverse perspectives. When they return, they bring a bit of Britain back with them, too. In an increasingly divided world, there is strength to be found in this kind of collaboration, not least with a continent home to the youngest and fastest-growing population on Earth.
Fox News
15 hours ago
- Politics
- Fox News
Chris Rufo lays out reforms to Trump administration on how to 'save' higher education
Chris Rufo, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, laid out a series of reforms in a letter on Monday that he believes will help "save" higher education in the country as well as taxpayers' hard-earned dollars. Rufo published his reforms in the Free Press, in which he calls for President Donald Trump to create a new contract with universities. In the new contract, universities should be part of each payment, loan, grant, eligibility, and accreditation. Failure to comply could mean the termination of all public assistance programs, Rufo suggested. The letter states universities must "advance truth over ideology, with rigorous standards of academic conduct, controls for academic fraud, and merit-based decision-making throughout the enterprise." Signed by over 40 people, including educators, religious leaders, academics and authors, the letter asks universities to stop taking part in social and political activism and "adhere to the principle of color-blind equality, by abolishing DEI bureaucracies, disbanding racially segregated programs, and terminating race-based discrimination in admissions, hiring, promotions, and contracting." It calls for a return to the concept of freedom of speech, the protection of civil discourse and "swift and significant penalties" for anyone who disrupts speakers, vandalizes property, occupies buildings, calls for violence, or prevents the university from carrying outits operations. The list of reforms also includes a request that universities are transparent about their operations and, at the end of each year, disclose the full data on race, admissions, and class rank, as well as employment and financial returns by major, campus attitudes on civil discourse, ideology, and free speech. The call to action directed at the Trump administration comes just over a month after the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on the Administrative State, Regulatory Reform, and Antitrust held a hearing on June 4 entitled, "The Elite Universities Cartel: A History of Anticompetitive Collusion Inflating the Cost of Higher Education." It also comes as the Manhattan Institute released a poll on Sunday that found that only 15% of registered voters say they have a lot of trust in private Ivy League colleges and universities. Among America's public colleges and universities, just one in five or 20% of registered voters say they have a "great deal" of trust in these institutions, according to the Manhattan Institute poll.
The Guardian
16 hours ago
- Politics
- The Guardian
US university leaders challenge campus antisemitism claims in House hearing
Rich Lyons, the chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, challenged US House Republicans on Tuesday as they questioned him and leaders of Georgetown University and the City University of New York in the latest hearing on antisemitism in higher education. The committee accused the schools of failing to respond adequately to allegations of bias or discrimination; however, the university leaders said that disciplinary action had been taken where appropriate and stressed the importance of protecting free speech. Lyons pushed back on the suggestion that antisemitism was more present on college campuses than anywhere else. 'If somebody is expressing pro-Palestinian beliefs, that's not necessarily antisemitic,' he said. Lyons, who has just completed his first year as chancellor, is also the first UC leader to face the House committee during the Trump presidency. In his opening remarks, he defended the campus' commitment to free speech. 'As a public institution, Berkeley has a solemn obligation to protect the quintessential American value of free speech,' Lyons said. 'This obligation does not prevent us, let me repeat, does not prevent us from confronting harassment and discrimination in all its forms, including antisemitism.' The hearing was the ninth in a series Republicans have held to scrutinize university leadership over allegations of antisemitism on campuses after a wave of protests over Israel's indiscriminate bombing of Gaza, which has killed more than 60,000 people, in retaliation to Hamas' 7 October 2023 attack on Israel. Widely criticized testimony before the committee by the presidents of the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University in 2023 contributed to their resignations. At Tuesday's hearing, Democrats blasted Republican committee members for their focus on antisemitism while not speaking on the dismantling of the education department, which is tasked with investigating antisemitism and other civil rights violations in schools. 'They have turned this hearing room into a kangaroo court, where they spend our time litigating a predetermined outcome to do nothing, actually, to help Jewish students, just make public theater out of legitimate pain,' said the California representative Mark Takano. Republicans said university leaders have allowed campus antisemitism to run unchecked. 'Universities can choose to hire antisemitic faculty, welcome students with a history of antisemitism, accept certain foreign funding, and let the behavior of antisemitic unions go unchecked,' Tim Walberg, a Michigan representative and committee chair, said in his opening statements. 'But we will see today they do so at their own risk.' The hearing was periodically interrupted by protesters, who shouted pro-Palestinian slogans before being removed by Capitol police. Randy Fine, a Florida representative, berated the college presidents and said they were responsible because of the attitudes they had permitted on their campuses. Republicans pressed the three college leaders on whether they had disciplined or fired faculty and employees for behavior they said was antisemitic. Elise Stefanik, a Republican representative of New York, pressed the CUNY chancellor, Félix Matos Rodríguez, on the employment of a law professor who worked on the legal defense of Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist the Trump administration attempted to deport over his role in protests at Columbia University. Stefanik pushed Matos Rodríguez to answer whether the professor should be fired. Without responding directly, Matos Rodríguez defended CUNY and said antisemitism had no place at the school. He said any student or employee who broke CUNY rules would be investigated. University leaders also emphasized the importance of free speech on campuses for students and faculty. Robert Groves, the interim president at Georgetown, said that as a Jesuit university, fostering interfaith dialogue and understanding was a key part of the school's mission. He said the university has not experienced any encampments or physical violence since the Hamas attack in October 2023. 'Given our Jesuit values, we expose students to different viewpoints on the Middle East,' Groves said. 'In addition to speakers on Gaza, we've hosted IDF soldiers, families of Israelis and Palestinians who've lost their lives. US families of US hostages in Gaza. Georgetown is not perfect, and as events evolve, we've had to clarify rules of student behavior.' Lyons, as well, said his campus has 'more work to do' to prevent antisemitism. 'I am the first to say that we have more work to do. Berkeley, like our nation, has not been immune to the disturbing rise in antisemitism. And as a public university, we have a solemn obligation to protect our community from discrimination and harassment, while also upholding the first amendment right to free speech,' he said. This article was amended on 16 July 2025. An earlier version misnamed Robert Groves as 'Richard' Groves and said that Rich Lyons was in his first year as chancellor of UC, Berkeley, when he is in his second year.
The Guardian
a day ago
- Politics
- The Guardian
US university leaders challenge campus antisemitism claims in House hearing
Rich Lyons, the University of California, Berkeley, chancellor, challenged US House Republicans on Tuesday as they questioned Lyons and leaders of Georgetown University and the City University of New York in the latest hearing on antisemitism in higher education. The committee accused the schools of failing to respond adequately to allegations of bias or discrimination, however the university leaders said that disciplinary action had been taken where appropriate and stressed the importance of protecting free speech. Lyons pushed back on the suggestion that antisemitism was more present on college campuses than anywhere else. 'If somebody is expressing pro-Palestinian beliefs, that's not necessarily antisemitic,' he said. Lyons, in his first year as chancellor is also the first UC leader to face the House committee during the Trump presidency. In his opening remarks, he defended the campus' commitment to free speech. 'As a public institution, Berkeley has a solemn obligation to protect the quintessential American value of free speech,' Lyons said. 'This obligation does not prevent us, let me repeat, does not prevent us from confronting harassment and discrimination in all its forms, including antisemitism.' The hearing was the ninth in a series Republicans have held to scrutinize university leadership over allegations of antisemitism on campuses after a wave of protests over Israel's indiscriminate bombing of Gaza, which has killed more than 60,000 people, in retaliation to Hamas' 7 October 2023 attack on Israel. Widely criticized testimony before the committee by the presidents of the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University in 2023 contributed to their resignations. At Tuesday's hearing, Democrats blasted Republican committee members for their focus on antisemitism while not speaking on the dismantling of the education department, which is tasked with investigating antisemitism and other civil rights violations in schools. 'They have turned this hearing room into a kangaroo court, where they spend our time litigating a predetermined outcome to do nothing, actually, to help Jewish students, just make public theater out of legitimate pain,' said the California representative Mark Takano. Republicans said university leaders have allowed campus antisemitism to run unchecked. 'Universities can choose to hire antisemitic faculty, welcome students with a history of antisemitism, accept certain foreign funding, and let the behavior of antisemitic unions go unchecked,' Tim Walberg, a Michigan representative and committee chair, said in his opening statements. 'But we will see today they do so at their own risk.' The hearing was periodically interrupted by protesters, who shouted pro-Palestinian slogans before being removed by Capitol police. Randy Fine, a Florida representative, berated the college presidents and said they were responsible because of the attitudes they had permitted on their campuses. Republicans pressed the three college leaders on whether they had disciplined or fired faculty and employees for behavior they said was antisemitic. Elise Stefanik, a Republican representative of New York, pressed the CUNY chancellor, Félix Matos Rodríguez, on the employment of a law professor who worked on the legal defense of Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist the Trump administration attempted to deport over his role in protests at Columbia University. Stefanik pushed Matos Rodríguez to answer whether the professor should be fired. Without responding directly, Matos Rodríguez defended CUNY and said antisemitism had no place at the school. He said any student or employee who broke CUNY rules would be investigated. University leaders also emphasized the importance of free speech on campuses for students and faculty. Richard Groves, the interim president at Georgetown, said that as a Jesuit university, fostering interfaith dialogue and understanding was a key part of the school's mission. He said the university has not experienced any encampments or physical violence since the Hamas attack in October 2023. 'Given our Jesuit values, we expose students to different viewpoints on the Middle East,' Groves said. 'In addition to speakers on Gaza, we've hosted IDF soldiers, families of Israelis and Palestinians who've lost their lives. US families of US hostages in Gaza. Georgetown is not perfect, and as events evolve, we've had to clarify rules of student behavior.' Lyons, as well, said his campus has 'more work to do' to prevent antisemitism. 'I am the first to say that we have more work to do. Berkeley, like our nation, has not been immune to the disturbing rise in antisemitism. And as a public university, we have a solemn obligation to protect our community from discrimination and harassment, while also upholding the first amendment right to free speech,' he said.
