As the world adapts to the new normal post pandemic and as travel restrictions in top higher education destinations gradually ease, student mobility to countries such as the UK, the US, Canada and Australia is also starting to pick up. Asian students are projected to lead the outbound international student market in the next three years, recent research has revealed.
The pandemic has affected global student mobility in many ways, especially for China, the largest sender of students to other countries for the past three decades, whose students are affected by travel curbs and other factors such as lack of English-language testing centres.
Though it is projected to continue to dominate as the largest sender of tertiary-level students to other countries with over 1.3 million students by 2025, markets like India, Vietnam, Indonesia, Nepal, Kazakhstan are expected to send more students abroad.
Fast Facts:
- Markets like India, Vietnam, Indonesia, Nepal, Kazakhstan are expected to send more students abroad in the next 3 years
- The US will be the top destination in terms of the inbound student market share by 2025, with 26.6% students, followed by the UK (13.8%), Canada (13.2%), and Australia (11.7%), as per a recent report
- India sent around 750,000 students abroad until 2019 which increased to over 11 lakh students until July 2021, as per data from the Indian government
The report from an international financial solutions provider predicts that about 80% of growth in the international student market is likely to come from Asian countries.
The US will be the top destinations to study abroad in terms of the inbound student market share by 2025, with 26.6% students, followed by the UK (13.8%), Canada (13.2%), and Australia (11.7%), as per the report.
