India was the top supplier of students to the US from the 2001-02 academic year to 2008-09, but in the latest data, it slips one rung. Still, the percentage of students from India in America increased 1.6 percent between 2008-09 and 2009-10. That translates to nearly 105,000 students during 2009-10. The majority of Indian students in the US are at the graduate level, with a much smaller percentage – about 15 percent – doing undergraduate work. Students from India represent a little over 15 percent of America’s total international student population. This country was one of the few left relatively unaffected by the global recession.
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