[Assam] Amazing Indian student migration

[umesh sharma]

Hi,

Some might be interested in it --esp if they are not from Indian metros. I went with my roommate to pick up 3 Indian students from Dulles Intl Airport in his old $3500 car purchased recently.- all came in same flight Qatar Airways --all from Mumbai. 

About 1,000 students from Delhi about 2,000 from Mumbai come to US each year to study - mostly masters in engineering etc -- mostly paid from own pocket -- perhaps higher real estate prices helps finance an education beyond the reach of most India (though in smaller govt run colleges tuition is less ($28,000 per master's dgeree and earn enough to pay for stay mostly ) and some get teaching assistantship - which is too less to be attractive for US students. IIT, Chicago (Illinois Int. of Technology) has taken in 2,000 students from India each year - my roommates tell me.

Two of them already were on lease (thru their classmates who had moved in our apartment complex last week) . I bet they must have already seen the complex thru Googlemap and sen their airplane flight thru Google Earth software. 
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=9451+Lee+Hwy,+Fairfax,+VA+22031,+USA&ie=UTF8&ll=38.867503,-77.269386&spn=0.003843,0.009956&t=h&z=17&om=1
This software wasn't there when I took my first plane flight (and also my first foreign trip) to come to US via Taiwan. 


Though I have been interacting with one Assamese girl who has just joined the univ here and is a juinor of one of my roommates after working in software engineering at TCS (Tata Consultancy Services - India's biggest IT company -- TCS has recruited 80 student's from Assam Engg College this year thru campus placement).  She has benefited from this student network also here.

More later.

Umesh

PS: On the other hand when I came to US I had never heard of anyone coming to US for higher studies - from my batch 
   

Umesh Sharma

Washington D.C. 

1-202-215-4328 [Cell]

Ed.M. - International Education Policy
Harvard Graduate School of Education,
Harvard University,
Class of 2005

http://www.uknow.gse.harvard.edu/index.html (Edu info)

http://hbswk.hbs.edu/ (Management Info)




www.gse.harvard.edu/iep  (where the above 2 are used )




http://jaipurschool.bihu.in/
       
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