Nearly 2 Lakh Indians Studied in US in 2017-2018

New York: India is the second largest international reservoir for the US higher education institutions having sent 196,271 students here in the last academic year, according to latest data. Their numbers continued to grow, with a 5.4 per cent increase in 2017-18 over the previous academic year, according to the Open Doors report from the State Department and the Institute of International Education. In the other direction, 4,704 students went to study in India during 2016-17, latest period for which data is available. It was an increase of 12.5 per cent from the previous year. (IANS)