In Big Shift, India Heats Up and China Cools Off in U.S. Graduate Enrollments

By Karin Fischer. In a sudden role reversal, the number of Indian students entering American graduate schools this fall exploded, while the share of new graduate students from China increased only modestly. 
First-time graduate enrollments from India, which had stagnated in recent years, surged 40 percent, according to a report out Tuesday on international graduate-student trends. But after seven consecutive years of double-digit growth, the number of Chinese students beginning graduate programs in the United States was up just 5 percent. Read more...