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    For Indians rethinking college abroad, home has new degree of possibility

    Feb 27, 2018 5 minutes
    Students chat in-between classes at the Indian School of Business and Finance, a private college affiliated with the London School of Economics, in New Delhi, India.

    When a study last fall showed the number of new foreign students arriving in the United States dipped slightly in 2016 – the first time in years – some analysts attributed the decline to the “Trump effect.”

    The nationalistic and anti-foreigner undertones of then-candidate Donald Trump’s presidential campaign had weakened the international draw of the Made-in-America college education, experts said.

    “We like to say that ‘things are in the air,’ and that’s the situation here,” says Sheikh Safwan, a sophomore at Ashoka University who thought seriously about heading to the United States himself. “There’s just this growing perception of uncertainty about the US, that it’s turning inward and that Trump’s direction is to discourage foreigners and put Americans first.”

    The new US administration is just one reason more Indian students are staying home, however.

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