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The large factors that power students' prime of survey overseas destination are the 'ability to use for post-study enactment visas/permits'. (Representative image/ Source: Freepik)
The caller visa and migration changes brought successful by the governments of the UK, Australia and Canada are reflecting successful the pupil choice, a caller survey by IDP Education has revealed. The study is based connected a survey conducted implicit August and September 2024 with implicit 6,000 students from 114 countries.
Among the apical 5 survey overseas destinations — the UK, US, Canada, Australia and, New Zealand — it is lone the US and New Zealand wherever the year-on-year information has shown an summation successful popularity, Interestingly, these are the lone 2 countries, out of the five, that person not brought successful stricter rules for visa and migration successful the past year.
As per the IDP survey, Australia was chosen by 24 per cent students, which is simply a diminution of 1 per cent from past year. Similarly, the UK besides saw a akin diminution and was chosen lone by 21 per cent. The biggest diminution successful popularity was observed successful Canada (9 per cent), which was sought retired by lone 16 per cent students.
Canada, which is usually 1 of the apical choices for Indian students, has been facing expanding diplomatic spats with the Indian government, and has besides brought successful stricter visa rules, some of which tin beryllium the reasons down this decline.
While the US observed an summation of 4 per cent and was chosen by 23 per cent, New Zealand (the upcoming survey overseas destination) saw an summation of 1 per cent and was preferred by 5 per cent students.
The large factors that power students’ prime of survey overseas destination are the ‘ability to use for post-study enactment visas/permits’ (52 per cent), way to imperishable residency (43 per cent), magnitude of savings required to beryllium eligible for a pupil visa (42 per cent), pupil visa fees and associated costs (41 per cent), quality to power betwixt antithetic types of visas, and quality for dependents/spouses of planetary students to enactment (29 per cent), quality to bring dependents/ spouses careless of visa benignant (28 per cent), nary strict limits oregon caps connected seats (24 per cent), and a alteration successful authorities (20 per cent).
The study besides stated that globally, 66 per cent of respondents are considering much than 1 destination to survey successful oregon person their planetary qualification from; the astir successful caller years.
In August 2024, 16 per cent students were considering much than 5 survey overseas destinations, 13 per cent were considering four, 20 per cent had astatine slightest 3 destinations arsenic options, 17 looked astatine 2 and 34 per cent lone had 1 option. As per the report, the fig of students who utilized to support lone 1 state arsenic an enactment for their survey overseas plans has decreased from 44 per cent successful August 2022 and March 2023 to 39 per cent successful August 2023, 36 per cent successful March 2024 and present further down to 34 per cent successful August 2024.
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