The president of Cornell University, David J Skorton has expressed his views over the dwindling Indian students in foreign US universities. He compared the dropout rates with brain circulation in lieu of an intense reverse brain drain. "I call it as a brain circulation and in the past it was going in one direction. We see discoveries are coming in the field of medicine, agriculture, technology from places that we did not think of in the past.
India has some of the finest and world class institutions such as IITs and Indian Institute of Science and there is no dearth of world-class quality education there," quoted David J Skorton, president of Cornell University, in dialogue with PTI held at Cornell Club in the magnificent Islands of Manhattan. During the meeting, Skorton attributed the change to the revolutionary research and technological advancements in the education sector of India.
Skorton is the president of coveted Cornell University which is a private ivy cheque university located in Ithaca, New York, USA. The university was remarked to be the “first American university” by educational historian, Fredeick Rudolph.
According to a survey conducted in 1970’s, as large as 100,000 students have been enrolled at American universities and three fourth ratio of elite Indian IITians migrated to US for higher education programmes. Unfortunately, the figures dipped to an all time low of 5% in the present scenario.
If sources are to be believed, 1,03,895 applications were received for in the year 2010 and the number declined to 1,00,270 during 2011-12. Educationists cited visa restrictions, economic slowdown as the key determinants behind the havemanating attrition rates.
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