"When the going gets tough, the tough get going", goes the popular saying. Living in this face paced world, one stressful burden is the question of "what next after foundational education is over?" The world is a competitive place to live in and, it all comes to settling down with a good job. Striving for a good job leads to quality education playing a big hand. However, today there is a huge underlying difference between the education system in India and abroad. The country still focuses on theory and input knowledge while education abroad deals in practical knowledge. This is one major reason why the US, UK and Australia are some of the favorite higher education destinations for Indian students. According to the study “Indian student mobility to selected European countries, an overview” by researchers at one of India’s top business schools, in just nine years the Indian Institute of Management–Bangalore has sent 189,629 overseas when compared to its previous number of 53,266. This saw a staggering rise in the percentage rate of students going abroad. It has risen by 256 percent in just 9 years. Having the third largest education system in the world, these numbers definitely raises a question on the methods of education implemented in India.

One incontrovertible fact which drives Indian students to study abroad is the lack of good institutions in India. There maybe a few of them that provides abroad like quality, but securing a seat becomes difficult because of the growing competition. An example of this is Delhi University, which has repeatedly set challenging cut-offs for admission and made headlines in 2011, with a 100 percent cut-off required for admission into Sri Ram College of Commerce. Though the cut-offs vary across subjects, most subjects require students to score in excess of 80 percent, with the cut-offs for popular subjects like economics ranging between 90 to 98 percent. A perception that foreign degrees translate into better employability is also an addition to it. What makes it more difficult today, are the different reservation policies that cater to the minority group and scheduled castes, tribes among others, which categorizes them to the ‘general’ group

Keeping in mind the pros and cons of foreign education, especially for Indians, it can be summarized that it is not bad after all. Apart from venturing out of home and getting quality education, it also enables students to be experts in their field of study and recognizes them on a global platform. Studying abroad also change one’s perception about a lot of things. Meeting different people from different cultures and backgrounds, helps in developing one as an individual. Most importantly, it helps one in achieving the sole purpose of studying abroad- job opportunities. Though it may be a drawback for the education system in India and its various institutions, getting a job in India is not a huge problem once the experience and skills are acquired abroad.