Recently there has been a huge rise in the number of students from India going to the US to pursue courses in the field of Business Analytics, Data Science, MIM, and STEM-based courses. For decades China has been the highest contributor of international students in the United States of America but recently it seems like China's position has been relegated. According to the Bureau of Consular Affairs, a total of 77,799 Indian students received F-1 visas from January to July this year, as opposed to 46,145 secured by China. In the last couple of years now, there has been a cut short competition between China and India in terms of the student visas that are issued by the United States of America. But in this competition, China always managed to surpass India with a few thousand more visas. This year India has managed to receive double the amount of student visas that have been issued to Chinese students. Experts have attributed this to the pandemic as it brought a cultural shift in education with itself. India was able to camouflage with this new ecosystem of education very quickly and this is the reason why so many student visas are being issued to Indian students.
