Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 05/2010

Attitudes and Perceptions of Prospective International Students from India

December 2009

Institute of International Education

Abstract

This IIE Briefing Paper examines the attitudes and perceptions of the U.S. of prospective international students from India, and is the second report in a series of attitudinal surveys of students from key sending countries. Students were surveyed on their preferred study abroad destinations, their reasons for studying abroad, the major obstacles they faced and their main sources of information on study abroad as well as their opinions of the U.S. as a potential study abroad destination compared to five other key host destinations.