Only Indian students’ intake in the United States’ colleges increased in 2018 against 2017 while other top four countries — China, South Korea, Saudi Arabia and Japan — reported decrease during the same period, said the US Immigration and Custom Enforcement on Wednesday.
The Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP,) part of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations, released an annual report on non-immigrant student trends on Wednesday.
As per the report, “Of these countries, only the number of students from India increased from 2017 to 2018 (+4,157). The number of students from China (-147) and Republic of Korea (South Korea) decreased (-6,403), Saudi Arabia (-10879) and Japan (-2134) over the same period.”
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