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With part-time job opportunities dwindling in the current US economic climate, many Indian students are looking for financial support through childcare jobs
Despite a slight dip of 0.2 per cent year-over-year, China remains the leader in international student enrollment in the US, with 289,526 students studying in the country during the same period.
In 2022, India sent more students to the United States as compared to the previous year while China sent fewer, according to a new report. The number of students from China and India made Asia the most popular continent of origin. Comparable to the drop from the calendar year 2020 to 2021, China sent fewer students in 2022 compared to 2021 (-24,796), while India sent more students (+64,300), US Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in its annual report. According to the Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP), the number of international students enrolled at kindergarten through grade 12 schools increased 7.8 per cent from 2021 to 2022 (+3,887). No K-12 schools hosted more than 700 international students in the calendar year 2022, similar to the calendar year 2021, the report said. All four regions in the United States saw an increase in international student records from 2021 to 2022, with respective increases ranging from 8 to 11 per cent, the report said. There were 117,3
The number of Indian students studying in American universities and colleges fell 4.4 per cent in 2019-20 (FY20) year-on-year
The drop has been observed in both science, technology, engineering & management (STEM), and in management education
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 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 optional practical training (OPT). China remains the top sending country, with almost twice the number of students in the U.S. as India, but India's rate of growth outpaced China's," the national survey of US higher education institutions stated.As per the survey, students from the top two countries of origin-China and India-now represent approximately 50 percent of the total enrollment of international students ..