Ahmedabad: Apart from travel restrictions are in place for most of 2020, 2.61 lakh students managed to other countries to pursue studies, disclosing data filed in Rajya Sabha by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The number was represented by more than 50% of the four-year high of 5.88 lakh in 2019.
Gujarat showed a trend similar to the number of students falling from 48,051 to 23,156 in the same period, a decrease of 52%.
In terms of sending students abroad, Gujarat was in fourth place behind Andhra Pradesh (35,614), Punjab (33,412), and Maharashtra (29,079).
Overall, around 9% of students who went abroad from India came from Gujarat.
Even in the first two months of 2021, the state maintained the ratio.
Data from 2016 also revealed that the number of those who aspired to study abroad have doubled from 24,775 in 2016 to 48,051 in 2019.
“Covid will definitely have an impact on plans aimed at postgraduate and postgraduate studies,” Jay Trivedi said a city.
Immigration consultant and visa based.
“Every year, around 15,000 students go to Canada and the US alone for further study.
The amount has been slightly affected due to travel restrictions and other factors.” Trivedi added: “But the trend is here to stay, with countries such as Australia and Germany and some other European countries attract students for special courses.” How about 2021 pots for students? Nethra Rangarajan (name changed), a private student based in the city, said that he had been waiting a year to enter the AI ​​Learning Course in the US.