Foreign students throng India

By Bhavya Dore. Samwel Odhiambo, feels like he fits in right here in Mumbai. The Kenyan student, now in this third year studying BSc IT at Patkar College in Goregaon left Nairobi after his schooling to pursue higher education in India. "It is five or six times more expensive in Kenya," he said. "I also wanted anew experience, so I came here."
Mumbai University has more than 100 foreign students on its rolls this year, mainly from African and Asian countries including Afghanistan, Ghana, Laos, Myanmar and Ethiopia. In 2008-09, the University had exactly 80.
Foreign students make up a very small proportion of those studying in India, however, despite little or no recruitment efforts and complicated admission procedures, their numbers have been slowly growing. More...