Washington : Apna Punjab Media : The US is aiming to send more of its students to India, said US ambassador to India Eric Garcetti during his address at the annual IC3 conference in Delhi. India became the number one source of higher education students to America for the second year,” said Garcetti, who served as the guest of honour at the conference.
Over 1 million students in the US come from this incredible country. But the other way isn’t high enough… It’s one of my goals to bring more American students to India. Garcetti highlighted that more US students study in the “beautiful yet small” country of Costa Rica than in India.
According to the Institute of International Education Open Doors Report 2020, over 3,300 US students studied in India in 2018 – 2019, which further fell to 1,736 students in 2019-20, according to the US Department of State. As someone who visited India as a 14-year-old and returned to the country when as a college-going 19-year-old, Garcetti reminisced on his ‘learnings’ from India and the impact an educational journey in the country could have on prospective students.When I read many great religious, philosophical, historical texts of India it changed my life and perspective. If we are going to build a human bridge, we have to know each other and understand our histories,” said Garcett
US ambassador urges more study opportunities for US students in India
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