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Going Home
The study found that family considerations and a desire to give back were the strongest motivators for returning to India.
| Nearly 3 in 4 Indian graduate students in U.S. universities say they plan to return home after their studies. Just 8 percent express a preference to work in the United States or overseas. Another 16 percent said they would take the best job, wherever its location.
An online survey of 998 students conducted by scholars at Rutgers University, Pennsylvania State University and the Tata Institute of Social Science found that roughly half the students would like to get two or three years of U.S. experience before returning home. B. Venkatesh Kumar, a political science professor at the Tata Institute, who co-authored the study Will They Return?, said he was surprised by the findings: “It’s been a significant change in attitude, given the changes in India, its rise as an economic power, and with it, this willingness to go back and help develop it into a knowledge society.” The study found that family considerations and a desire to give back were the strongest motivators for returning to India. The work environment, corruption and red tape were cited as the biggest deterrents to returning. There are an estimated 100,000 Indians at U.S. universities, the single largest foreign student group.
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