Indian students leave UK after degree |
A majority of Indian students who come to the UK for higher education tend to leave at the end of their degree. Between April 2016 and April 2017, as many as 7,469 Indian students left before the expiry of their student visas with only 2,209 choosing to extend their visas to remain in Britain. Thai, Chinese, Indian and North American (US) students were more likely to depart before their study visas or extensions expired, whereas Russian, Bangladeshi, Pakistani and Saudi Arabian students were more likely to extend their leave to remain. It also confirms a massive drop in the number of Indians choosing the UK as a destination of choice for their university education. Indian students accounted for approximately 9,600 visas granted in 2016 (or 7 per cent), but in 2010 they accounted for around one in five of visas granted at 40,500. It indicates that figures of students over-staying may have been inflated in the past and has prompted UK`s home secretary Amber Rudd to commission a new assessment of the impact of international students on the UK economy.
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