The aspiration to travel abroad for university and work has long been ubiquitous across India. In a country of 1.4 billion people, places at India’s top universities are excruciatingly competitive and graduate job prospects at the other end of studies are gloomy. Unemployment topped 8% last month, with graduate unemployment at about 18%.
In 2022, 770,000 Indian students went to study abroad and almost 140,000 of them travelled to the UK.
For those in the middle and upper
