Studying Abroad is not always about degrees but a strong foundation for immigration, Say Experts
According to study abroad experts and students, many people who view foreign degrees as a stepping stone for immigration to another nation may not like Indian campuses of foreign universities. The University Grants Commission (UGC) announced draught regulations that will permit international universities to establish campuses in India for the first time with the freedom to choose their own admission policies and tuition rates. Many experts and students who want to study abroad believe that attending a foreign institution involves much more than merely obtaining a diploma from a different country.
The Indian campuses of such universities will not be of any help to retain them, according to Ripun Das, who is relocating to the United States this year to pursue his management degree at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School. “More and more students go because the studies in foreign countries gives them advantage to get jobs opportunity to settle in those countries,’ said Das.Sharan Banerjee, a PhD scholar at Cornell University’s SC John School of Business, believes the value of these foreign universities is often in the community you find on the campuses.
According to him, allowing them to establish campuses “may not reproduce the same success story or may be less enticing in terms of merit or degree and rigour, among other things.” The main campus of an institution is always the main draw, claims Rajesh Jha, a professor at Delhi University.Almost eight out of ten Indian students, according to a recent survey by INTO University Partnerships, consider studying abroad as a way to work and settle abroad after graduation.
Similar to this, an analysis of patterns in global migration by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) revealed that among all international students, Indians studying in economically developed nations are the most likely to return home and work in the local labour market.
However, UGC Chairman M. Jagadesh Kumar holds a different perspective on this.”In the near future, there will be more than a million Indian students who desire to study overseas. Only a small portion of Indian students who are leaving for international colleges can be admitted to their Indian campuses. Therefore, those who travel abroad in order to immigrate after finishing their degrees would keep doing so, he told PTI.
The campuses of FHEIs in India provide an option for those students who do not intend to immigrate. As a result, both groups of students will keep making their decisions, he said.According to the proposed regulations, international colleges having campuses in the nation may only provide full-time programmes in the offline form, not via online or distance education.The initial approval will be granted for 10 years, and it will be renewed in the ninth year if specific requirements are met.
These institutions must not provide any study programme that endangers India’s national interests or the quality of higher education offered here.”It is not necessarily the quality of education that drives students to go overseas,” study abroad specialists assert. Life quality is important as well. Life off campus is important.
Even the establishment of a foreign university in India won’t prevent Indian students from studying overseas. Certainly advantageous to those unable to travel overseas.
