GMAC says that the number of GMAT scores sent by Indians to U.S. schools declined 18.6% from 2017 to 2018 testing years (2018 testing year is July 1, 2017, to June 30, 2018). Meanwhile, the number of Indians who sent GMAT scores to German schools rose 29.5% in the same period; for Canadian and European programmes, it rose over 15%.
According to Sangeet Chowfla, President and CEO of GMAC, there are two reasons for the trend. The long term trend is that there more high quality schools opening up in other regions such as Europe, so students have more options. The short term trend is the rhetoric coming from the Trump administration and the strict visa regimes. This is probably the first time for those looking to apply to US schools as schools are seeing fewer applications so overall competition is lower, Chouwfla said further.
Remarkably, interest among international applicants - primarily from Africa and South East Asia - in top Indian Bschools is also increasing.
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