Studying abroad in UK: What do Indian students prefer?

Now a days , the number of students moving abroad for their further studies has increased. many of the countries are meeting to the needs of the students in a better way. a few years back students sees US as their place of choice ,but since past 2-3 years ,the students are also keeping UK as their preference. in between 2016-17 the number of students moving to UK is increased to 16550, which is about 10% of total and now the number is increased to about 15% of the total. So, why the students prefer UK? Let’s check it out.

1. EASY TO ADOPT:
Students move to various countries and they needs time for the adoption of the new environment to settle down , Uk is the place which is a quite known and familiar to Indians because of the historical connections between the nations. Many of the Indians feel no problems while settling down with the British society. also there are no language barrier as Indians are learning for UK English asset. so no problem is there for communication.
2. UK IS STILL A GREAT PLACE FOR INDIANS:
Since last some of the years, the ‘GREAT BRITAIN CAMPAIGNE’ is promoting UK as a welcoming country, they offers Indian students high-quality hostels, flexible course, good work placements, opportunities for skills development and also opportunities for R and D departments.post study visas are easy to extend and renew , for UK as compared to US and also the post studies visas for UK are up to 2 years duration.
After the trump empire has came in power the US has went down in the preference list of the students.
3. FAST GROWTH IN CARRER:
UK university let students to work at the time of studying, which provides boost up for the future placements of the students. The degrees by UK universities also has a special importance and are accepted world wide.
Indian people always look for the refunds and as the students earning after moving out from universities they will recover their studying expenses in just 3-4 years which is much faster as compared to other countries.
4.LESS EXPENSES AND MORE SCHOLARSHIPS:
The expenses in UK are very less as compared to US and Other countries. simply if looks for the tution fees it varies from 4000rs-21000rs and for US it varies from 4000rs-40000rs so,people chose goes for more efficient. UK government provide students with various scholarships some of them are listed below:

1. Chevening scholarships
2. UK STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Scholarships
(launched in December 2018, for female applicants in STEM areas)
3. the Commonwealth Masters Scholarships
4. UK India Education Research Initiative (UKERI)
5. Newton-Bhabha Fund
6. the British Council’s GREAT Scholarships
Some of the scholarships are provided on smaller scale on the basis of academics and other achievements British universities also tries to help students for the selection of the scholarships and to improve their academics.

5. GLOBAL REPUTATION OF THE UNIVERSITIES:
It has been seen that in the global rankings of universities only one Indian university is seen among first 300 ranks. For UK the number goes up for 11 in first 100, 18 more for first 200 and and 10 more for first 300 including the University Of Essix. Students always look for the better, that is where the UK universities are coming in picture.
6. EASY TO APPLY:
The admission procedures of UK universities are very less stressful as compared to others. In UK the admissions are rigorous but the admission depends upon the overall profile of the student UK University admissions don’t ask for the exams like SAT and SAT subject tests for their undergraduate programmes. Indian grading systems like CBSE and ISC are accepted without any problem. There are a lot many things which makes students to chose UK rather than other countries like, there are no language problems, lifestyle is less costly as compared to other nations and also the historic links, as many of the Indian leaders and big personalities, economists, politicians, authors and Business faces were students of the UK universities.

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