About institutional drivers explain different enrollment trend of indian and chinese graduate students in the us

Indian and Chinese graduate students are showing contrasting enrollment patterns at US universities, based on a recently available report released by the Council of Graduate Schools. For India, first-time enrollment increased by 40% after 2 yrs of flat growth. As opposed, first-time enrollment of Chinese grew by measly 5% when compared with over 20% increase in previous couple of years.

Student mobility can be a complex phenomenon with multiple variables influencing the future directions. The current state of graduate student mobility can be explained by no less than three primary dimensions--institutional side, student side and external environment. On this article, I analyze the alteration in the institutional side and subsequent blogs will take care of remaining two dimensions.

Increasing acceptance by master%u2019s level, public institutions

One of the biggest contributors for the spike in Indian number have been the bigger acceptance of Indian students by master%u2019s level public institutions away from 100 largest institutions awarding graduate degrees to international students. First chart suggests that larger variety of Indian students were enrolling at institutions outside the top players in comparison with Chinese students. First-time enrollment of Indian students at institutions outside top players increased by 73% as compared to only two% for Chinese. As nearly 2/3rd of Indian students enroll in STEM related fields, the enrollment in Engineering and Physical & Earth Sciences also shot up at %u201CAll Other Institutions.%u201D