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Why only a few Indian states dominate study abroad despite shifting destinations. (Getty Images) India is often described as the world’s largest source of international students, but that headline hides an uncomfortable truth: India does not send students abroad evenly. A small cluster of states has dominated outbound mobility for years, while vast parts of…
For many Indian students planning overseas education in 2026, the shortlist still begins with the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia. Yet outside this familiar group, New Zealand continues to attract a steady stream of applicants. Its appeal is not built on scale or spectacle. It rests on predictability, structure, and outcomes that…
Indian students are still looking abroad, but they are choosing differently. Indian students are redrawing the study-abroad map with a calculator in hand. Fresh data tabled by the Ministry of External Affairs puts the total number of Indian students overseas at 1,882,318 (as on January 1, 2025)—a headcount spread across 153 countries and, crucially, one…
Ambitions never have boundaries. They take wings from crowded aisles, from modest schools with peeling paint, and from the latent perseverance of families who dare to dream. Studying abroad is a dream nurtured by students from diverse localities. For long, it was widely believed that only students from big cities, sitting in ivory towers, could…
