In 2025, around 1.8 million Indian students are studying abroad. The top choices are the US with 3.3 lakh students, Canada with 1.3 lakh, the UK with nearly 1 lakh, and Germany with around 50,000.
For example, each student spends an average of Rs 50 lakh per year on education, India is losing about Rs 3 lakh crore every year. That is a huge amount of money going out of the country.
With this money, India could build hundreds of top-class universities. Many things in the education sector could be improved, like better classrooms, modern labs, more trained teachers, and research facilities.
Instead of sending students abroad, we should focus on making our own colleges and universities world-class. This will save money and give Indian students quality education at home.
Can there be any drive or focus to guide students to spend their money—or money taken as bank loans—on Indian education instead of going abroad? What steps or ideas can the central government take?
What measures can the nation adopt to encourage foreign universities to set up full campuses in India, with complete facilities and foreign faculty in place, giving the same education with foreign faculty within India, so that large part of Indian money stays within the country, though a fraction goes to foreign lands?
