Hi,
Some might be interested in it --esp if they are not from Indian metros. I went
with my roommate to pick up 3 Indian students from Dulles Intl Airport in his
old $3500 car purchased recently.- all came in same flight Qatar Airways --all
from Mumbai.
About 1,000 students from Delhi about 2,000 from Mumbai come to US each year to
study - mostly masters in engineering etc -- mostly paid from own pocket --
perhaps higher real estate prices helps finance an education beyond the reach
of most India (though in smaller govt run colleges tuition is less ($28,000 per
master's dgeree and earn enough to pay for stay mostly ) and some get teaching
assistantship - which is too less to be attractive for US students. IIT,
Chicago (Illinois Int. of Technology) has taken in 2,000 students from India
each year - my roommates tell me.
Two of them already were on lease (thru their classmates who had moved in our
apartment complex last week) . I bet they must have already seen the complex
thru Googlemap and sen their airplane flight thru Google Earth software.
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=9451+Lee+Hwy,+Fairfax,+VA+22031,+USA&ie=UTF8&ll=38.867503,-77.269386&spn=0.003843,0.009956&t=h&z=17&om=1
This software wasn't there when I took my first plane flight (and also my first
foreign trip) to come to US via Taiwan.
Though I have been interacting with one Assamese girl who has just joined the
univ here and is a juinor of one of my roommates after working in software
engineering at TCS (Tata Consultancy Services - India's biggest IT company --
TCS has recruited 80 student's from Assam Engg College this year thru campus
placement). She has benefited from this student network also here.
More later.
Umesh
PS: On the other hand when I came to US I had never heard of anyone coming to
US for higher studies - from my batch
Umesh Sharma
Washington D.C.
1-202-215-4328 [Cell]
Ed.M. - International Education Policy
Harvard Graduate School of Education,
Harvard University,
Class of 2005
http://www.uknow.gse.harvard.edu/index.html (Edu info)
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/ (Management Info)
www.gse.harvard.edu/iep (where the above 2 are used )
http://jaipurschool.bihu.in/
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