Migration of Students- A Comparative Study among Different Countries of the World

Copyright © 2019 by author(s) and International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development Journal. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by/4.0) ABSTRACT Going abroad has now become trend for the youngsters mainly in India. Students go abroad for their higher education and majority of them stays there and don’t come back. The reason for not coming back can be influenced by many factors like: the living standard in the foreign countries, the method of education, the earnings etc.

The data has been collected from many authenticated websites. This is a quantitative research paper. This paper will help the students to decide that which country they have to prefer for education and it is also helpful for the various global organizations, colleges and universities that which factors the international students undertakes to pursue their education overseas.

Introduction:
Nowadays, getting job is very difficult and the increasing competition has made it more worsen. Today the world demands global education. Now getting education is not limited to the boundaries but it has widened up internationally. Students are going abroad to get better education. The living standard and educational opportunities attracts the students to come out of their home country.
This phenomenon leads to "Brain-Drain". Despite students, the Professional people who were educated from India wants to do job overseas and settle there, mainly in the fast moving countries like US, Australia, Canada etc.
The number of student migration from India is increasing rapidly. The main benefit of studying abroad is that students get the field in which they are actually interested in and in which they want their specialization to be, which may they don't get in their home country. The degree which they obtained from the host country is worth when it comes to finding a job in the foreign country or in any other nation. The other benefit of that degree is that the host country allows the student to live there even after completing their education and treat them fairly when they apply for the residential purpose.
Due to highly increased competition, countries required highly skilled migrants and to attract more and more international students, the countries are changing their policies. They start giving easy visas, work while studying, and job after studies etc. These are some of the ways that the foreign countries are doing to attract the international students. There are some factors like quality education, employment, standard of living etc. leads to student mobility. One of the main factor is poor job opportunities in the domestic nation and getting the jobs in the host country leads to high cross border mobility.
According to UIS (UNESCO Institute for Statistics), the international student migration was about 1.1 million in 1980 and after a decade reached to million 1.3 but a decade before now it was million 3.4. Countries which are popular among international students are Canada, Australia, US, UK, Germany etc.

Scope of this paper
In the end, this paper will help to determine the various factors and sources that help the students to keep into consideration while going to some foreign country and this will also help the global universities to make their policies by keeping in consideration these factors.

Objective
To study the various factors which influence the students to go abroad To examine the proportion of students who are getting education in foreign countries To examine the total number of foreign students coming to India

Hypothesis
There is no relationship between the factors and the students going abroad (H0) There is a direct relationship between the educational opportunities and the increase in cross border mobility (H1)

Research Design
The data is taken from Secondary sources. The data is taken from many authenticated websites and organizations like "The Ministry of Tourism, UNESCO, Ministry of External Affairs, and All India Survey on Higher Education" etc. This research paper is also written with the help of many other research papers which are written by professionals.

Review of Literature
This paper has 2 sections: The first section will show the number of student migration from India to other countries and the various factors which influence them. The second part will show the number of foreign students coming to India and studying various courses.

Part 1
Everyone has dream of going to foreign countries may be for the study purpose, job purpose or just for roaming and enjoying. From the past years, the trend of going to abroad has been increased rapidly like never before. The table number 1 shows the data from year 2000-2017 taken from the report of "The Ministry of Tourism" which is the authenticated report and which shows that with the increasing time, the number of pupils going abroad are also increasing, which shows an upward trend. This led to increase in the GDP's of the other countries where the pupils are going.

Factors
Different studies have proven that family influence is the major factor which encourages the student to study abroad. Beside the above factors, students can also gather information themselves via: internet, newspapers, reviews, educational agents etc. Despite having so much sources for getting information, the researcher like (James 1999) examine that international students have limited information to decide that which course they have to choose for their career. On internet, there is limited information about the teaching and study pattern of the universities. There are various reasons that why the demand for international students are higher. The first and foremost reason is that higher the international students, higher the financial resources in the host country and higher the funds are provided for the smooth functioning of the private institutions. (Khadria, 2001) indicated that they increase the standards of performance of the Universities, which attracts the foreign students as well as it also mark positive effect on the global ranking. The increasing number of International students also increases the FDI's (Foreign Direct Investment) and GDP (Gross Domestic Product) of the country, impacting the country to grow and develop more.
India is both a host country as well as the highest student forward country to other nations. The top 5 countries where the Indian students prefer to go are: UK, Canada, Australia, USA and New Zealand. These countries are on the top most lists of the Indian students' while taking a decision to study abroad. Like India, there are many other nations which are leading at sending students internationally. According to UNESCO Institute for Statistics, China is on the top in terms of sending their students internationally and then followed by India. Table number 2 shows the data taken from "UNESCO Institute for Statistics" showing the total outbound internationally mobile tertiary students studying abroad of some main nations from the year 2012-2017. The above table shows the total number of international students who are studying abroad of 7 countries from the year 2012-2017. The bar graph of the same is plotted below:

Figure 2 Total number of internationally mobile tertiary students studying abroad
The bar graph shows Year on the Horizontal Axis and number of students studying abroad on the vertical axis. The data shows that how many students are studying abroad from different countries. It shows the data of 7 major countries. From this data, it can be said that China is on the top most having highe3st number of students studying abroad and it has been continuously increasing from the past years and then followed by India, Germany, France, US, Canada and Australia.
If the segregation is to be made that how many Indian students are studying in different countries, then the top most is in United States of America and then followed by Canada. The data to show this has been stated below which is taken from "The Ministry of External Affairs" The table number 3 shows the data of students studying in 9 different countries. The data is taken from Ministry of External Affairs of 2018. About 600,000 Indian students are studying in different areas of the whole world. This data shows that USA is having highest number of Indian students studying there i.e. 211,703 and then followed by Canada i.e. 124,000. The least number of Indian students are in UK. All thanks to these countries for changing their immigration policies for the international student migration and making the rules and policies which attracts the international students to study there. The pie chart of the same data is shown in Figure 3 in terms of percentage.

Figure 3 Number of Indian Students studying in different countries
This pie chart shows the different countries in different colors and the percentage of Indian students which are studying there. The cost of education in Canada is less than the other countries. It also gives scholarships for the post graduation courses than the graduation courses. From this data, it can be said that there are 3 most preferred countries by the Indian students (USA, Canada, and Australia). This also means that there are increasing middle income families, who are able to send their children abroad in foreign universities.

Part 2
India is also a preferable country for the international students. India has the world's largest education system. It has more than 350 Universities and 16000 colleges. The Indian government has also made some changes in the policies to encourage and help the international students from the developing countries to study here. The international students coming to India increases the GDP and FDI's of India. According to Ministry of External Affairs, the proportion of international students from the past years is decreasing. The data related to this is shown in table number 4 taken from "The Ministry of External Affairs". In table number 4, the data is shown of 4 years (2014-2017). It shows that the number of foreign students in the year 2015 increases rapidly compared to 2014 but then starts declining and currently there are approx 50,000 international students in India. The government has to do something in context to attract the foreign students. It is more clear from the below bar graph.

Figure 4
There is sharp rise in the number of foreign scholar from 2014 to 2015 but afterwards, there is a declining trend. There is approx 5000 decrease in the figures of international students from year 2015 to 2017. If the measures were not taken, then these numbers will continuously decline which leads to less inflow of Foreign Direct Investment.

Foreign students from 10 different countries:
The foreign students come from 162 different countries from the world to India for study purpose. The highest number of international students comes from Nepal and fewer students are from Iran as shown in figure 5. This data comprises of 62% of the number of international students coming from top 10 countries studying in India and the rest 38% comes from different 152 countries. The highest number of students came from Nepal i.e. 38% then followed by Afghanistan (15%). The least number of students come from Iran i.e. 4%.

State-wise distribution of foreign students:
There are 26 states in India. The number of foreign students is highly differing from state to state. According to "All India Survey on Higher Education" there are approx 50,000 foreign students in India and the highest number of foreign students is in Karnataka comprising 13,050 international students whereas state like Mizoram has only 7 international students. The figure number 6 shows the data of 10 different states which are having high number of international.

"Study in India" Scheme:
The government announced a plan to attract about 2 lakh international students to India which is 4 times greater than the current number of students. This scheme is launched by 4 ministries: human resource development, home, commerce and external affairs. Easy visas and fee waiver has been provided under this scheme to international students from Africa and Asia.
The Union Human Resource Development Minister said that there are many complain about strict rules in the Indian higher education and now the government is making many efforts to liberalize it. India can become a country where the foreign students can afford their fees and they are opening many top universities for them.
This scheme will open gates for foreign students and provide them prominent education. India is targeting students from South, West Asia, Africa and South-East. Initially, 30 countries and 160 colleges and universities are targeted to start the plan. In order to make this plan more attractive, government and institutions offer fee waiver to 53% of foreign students. The students from that 30 countries will apply online to 160 colleges. This scheme will bring together students of different cultures in the Indian Universities.

Conclusion:
International education has now become trend in most of the countries like US, Australia, Canada etc. They contribute a lot to the host country's economy and generate lots of work. The foreign countries should also take into consideration the students perspectives. The countries and institutions should give fee waiver to the foreign students, so that they can afford the fees. The result of this paper shows that family is the main source of information and they influence a lot to student regarding where they have to study. This paper also shows that how many students of India are studying abroad and how many international students are studying in India in various states and how many students are coming from which country. To encourage more foreign scholars, the universities should built a successful brand name and design their programs in such a manner that it does not cost much to the student and should be completed in a reasonable time.

Limitations of the Study
This paper does not include the major hurdles that students face while taking a decision regarding study outer world. The future research can be done on the males and females studying abroad and the number of international students segregated as males and females studying in India.