Indian student visas on the rise

August 4, 2008

Intensive marketing in India seems to be paying off as upwardly mobile students turn their attention towards Australian universities...

And although Chinese students still make up the majority of the international population in higher education - with 107,071 enrolments last year - Indian students are quickly catching up.

Last year more than 63,600 Indian students came to Australia to study, an increase of 63.9 per cent from the year before. In fact, India now contributes the second largest number of foreign students to the Australian education population, overtaking South Korea by nearly 30,000 students.