January 9, 2009

Weak Economy Could Curtail Flow of Indian Students Into the U.S.

By Shailaja Neelakantan

New Delhi

More than 94,000 Indian students enrolled at American colleges and universities in the fall of 2007—up nearly 24 percent from two years earlier—making India the largest source of foreign students in the United States. But that boom may come to an end in 2009.

Thanks to tightening credit markets and a global slowdown in economic growth, Indian students are finding it harder to secure loans to study abroad or are less willing to take on huge amounts of debt, according to

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