Pritha Roy Choudhury is a special correspondent and covers overseas education for the news website and magazine. She writes on the aspirations and experiences of the lakhs of students who leave India to study abroad each year. She writes on changing visa and other policies of study-abroad destinations, living and working abroad, financing foreign education, popular programmes, scholarships, trends and more. Based in Kolkata, she also covers education and institutions in and around West Bengal. Her previous stints included work with a multimedia news agency and a citizen reporting initiative. She can be reached at pritha.roychoudhury@careers360.com. On X,, she is @pritharoyc
UK Visa: Close to 50% b-schools are missing targets for non-EU international student enrolment; many shifting focus to online MBA, UG courses
JAGSoM will soon launch an integrated BBA-MBA programme. Its track-based MBA ensures that ‘placement is not a challenge’, said the director.
Study in USA: Indian students’ number grew 35%, the sharpest growth of all countries; there are more Indian graduate students than Chinese.
Management Development Institute Gurgaon’s ‘core competency’ is in finance; it recently set up the School of Management of Financial Institutions.
IIMs are attracting international students to their blended learning programmes and working on partnerships with foreign institutions to draw more.
IIM Ranchi has drawn up a ‘strategic plan’ for 2030 with four priorities – education, research, international collaborations, and social impact.
Bidyut Chakraborty’s tenure as VC of Visva-Bharati has been marked by controversy and punitive actions against students, teachers.
The number of students leaving Kerala to study abroad grew 68% from 2016 to 2019 but fell again during covid.