India hosted 47,427 international students, a “long way” from Study in India goal
India’s higher education institutions hosted a total of 47,427 international students from 164 countries in the academic year 2018/19, newly-released figures reveal.
International students made up a tiny fraction of the overall higher education enrolments, which amounted to 37.4 million students. Based on data uploaded by Higher Education Institutions (with responses from 962 universities, 38,179 colleges and 9,190 standalone institutions), the All India Survey of Higher Education was recently released by the Ministry of Human Resource Development.
