Number of Indian students studying in the United States of America and Australia in 2012

The number of Indian students studying in the United States of America and Australia in 2012 is 100270 and 36326 respectively.

There has been a marginal decline of 3.5% ( 103895 in 2010-11 to 100270 in 2011-12) in the enrolment of Indian students studying in United States of America.

There is no authentic comparative study available to show that Indian universities are low in quality or employment potential. While it is a fact that Indian Universities do not figure in the top 200 universities in the world as announced by some of the International Ranking Systems, the reasons for this are that these systems use different parameters to rank universities, some of which are not relevant in the Indian context and therefore, cannot constitute the basis for the benchmarking of Indian universities vis-à-vis other universities in the world.

The Government has launched a Centrally Sponsored Scheme (CSS) to establish one model Degree College in each of the 374 identified Educationally Backward Districts (EBD) in the country with GER below the national average. Under this CSS, the States may, if they so choose, identify private not-for-profit participants in Public Private Partnership (PPP) mode. The Government has also decided to set up 20 Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs) under the Public Private Partnership mode.

No comparative details of the Indian and foreign universities are available in relation to the average of provision of employment and amenities.