20 Pct More Indian Students Apply for UK Visa in 2013


Harper said, "In particular, numbers from India and China have seen big increases. This shows that, despite stories to the contrary, students continue to want to come to the UK to study at our world class universities. We have tackled abuse of the student route head on — without affecting genuine students. By protecting the reputation of the British education system we will be able to compete in a global race," as reported by TNN.

According to recent data from TOI, the British colleges received the maximum number of applications from Chinese students at 6,903, followed by 5,452 Irish with 0.3 percent increase this year; 5,046 from Hong Kong with 1 percent increase; 3,457 Singaporean with 6.8 percent increase; 3,382 French with 6.2 percent increase and 3,233 Malaysian with 24.8 percent increase over 2012.

Germany is the only country which showed a decrease in the number of applications, from 2,943 applications in 2012 to 2,753 applications in 2013, accounting a fall of 6.5 percent.

An increase of 14 percent was seen among American students applying to UK this year with 2713 applications.

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