With 12041 foreign students studying across its colleges and universities, Karnataka grabs the acme spot while it comes to foreign student enrollment in different educational courses in India. According to AISHE report 2017-18, as many as 46144 students have been enrolled at different levels of academic programmes across all states and Union Territories (UTs) of India.
Out the total enrollement, only Karnataka is educating over 1/3rd of the entire foreign national students. Second to Karnataka is Uttar Pradesh where 4465 foreign candidates are pursuing their education at different levels followed by Maharashtra which is house to 4306 foreign students.
With 3775, 3542 and 3542 foreign candidates, Punjab, Tamil Nadu and Telangana are at fourth, fifth and sixth positions respectively in terms of the states offering education to maximum foreign students in India. Delhi, Andhra Pradesh, Haryana and Gujarat are the UT and states with foreign student enrollment of 2266, 2092, 2017 and 1689, respectively.
This means that out of the 31 states and UTs in India, around 85 percent of the overall foreign enrolled students in India study in these 10 states only. On the other hand, rest of the 21 states and UTs have a foreign student enrollment of only 15 percent taken together.
S.No.
State
Enrollment
1
Karnataka
12041
2
U.P.
4465
3
Maharashtra
4306
4
Punjab
3775
5
Tamil Nadu
3542
6
Telangana
2877
7
Delhi
2266
8
Andhra Pradesh
2092
9
Haryana
2017
10
Gujarat
1689
Total
39070
After Haryana and Gujarat (9th and 10th), Rajasthan and Uttarakhand are the only states having foreign student enrollment of over 1000. The states/UTs offering education to foreign students ranging from 500 to 1000 include West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Chandigarh. While Assam, Bihar, Goa, Sikkim, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Meghalaya and Kerala are the states with enrollment ranging from 100 to 500 foreign students.
Further, the states having enrollment of 1 to 100 include Jharkhand, Puducherry, Tripura, Jammu and Kashmir, Manipur, Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh. Out of all the states and UTs, Arunachal Pradesh has the least number of foreign student enrollment of 1.
Foreign Student Enrollment
11
Rajasthan
1101
12
Uttarakhand
1055
13
West Bengal
907
14
Himachal Pradesh
871
15
Madhya Pradesh
654
16
Chandigarh
580
17
Assam
306
18
Bihar
269
19
Goa
240
20
Sikkim
214
21
Odisha
200
22
Chhattisgarh
182
23
Meghalaya
172
24
Kerala
136
25
Jharkhand
89
26
Puducherry
45
27
Tripura
28
Jammu and Kashmir
29
Manipur
30
Mizoram
31
Arunachal Pradesh
46144
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