A record 165,918 Indians were studying in the US during academic year 2015-16, a rise of 25 per cent over the last year, making it the second leading country among the international students in America, according to a report released on Monday.
“This was the highest absolute increase of students ever and followed the previous year’s record growth,” according to the 2016 Open Doors Report on International Educational Exchange. Also, “the number of international students at US colleges and universities surpassed one million for the first time during the 2015-16 academic year, an increase of seven per cent from the previous year to a new high of nearly 1,044,000, representing five per cent of the total student population at US institutions,” it said.