India’s Higher-Education system is driving students out
Published on: Nov. 22, 2025, 3:12 a.m. | Source: Daily Excelsior
By R. Suryamurthy India’s student mobility crisis is no longer a question of data, it is an indictment of a system that has refused to reform while the world moved on. The new NITI Aayog paper does not so much analyse this imbalance as expose it. The numbers are brutal: for every foreign student who chooses India today, 19 Indians leave the country to study abroad. In 2021, the ratio plunged to 1:24, the worst imbalance in modern Indian history. […]
