Flow of Indian students to US for academic year 2018-19 dip by 30%

According to foreign education service providers, the number of Indian students applying to the US institutions for the academic year 2018-2019 have dipped by 30-40 per cent.
 
Instead, students are opting for institutions in Canada, followed by Australia, New Zealand and Germany. The drop has been observed in both science, technology, engineering & management (STEM), and in management education.
 
The reasons for a shift from the US are both political uncertainty and rising costs on American campuses.
 
Meanwhile, according to Open Doors Report on International Education Exchange, for the academic year 2017-2018, 186,000 Indian students had gone