WES Policy on Selected Three-Year Bachelor’s Degrees from India

WES Staff More than 102,000 Indian students were enrolled at a U.S. institution of higher education in 2014. Of these, 60 percent were enrolled at the graduate level. This is a staggering number considering many Indian students face significant hurdles related to the equivalency of…

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Mobility Patterns and Pathways of Indian Engineers to the U.S.

By Rahul Choudaha, Megha Roy, Research & Advisory Services, WES More than 25 million Indians have emigrated and currently reside in countries around the world. Nearly 2.6 million of them live in the United States, forming the third largest immigrant population there. Compared to the…

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New Study: How International Bachelor’s Students Choose Institutions

Alejandro Ortiz, Research & Advisory Services, WES During the 2013-2014 academic year, the growth of international students at the bachelor’s level outpaced that of master’s students, increasing 54% from 2008-2009 to 2013-2014, compared to 26% during the same period for master’s students (IIE data). This…

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WENR, November 2015: Americas

Brazil Exposing the dangers of fictitious study abroad programs Students visiting a BMI fair in Brazil last month were offered fictitious study abroad options by children’s charity UNICEF, in order to highlight the struggles young people face in other parts of the world. As part…

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WENR, November 2015: Africa

Regional Proposals to boost African universities Recommendations for strengthening African universities were agreed at a high-level event titled “A Strategy to Strengthen Higher Education in Africa for Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals” last weekend, held alongside the United Nations General Assembly meeting to adopt…

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