New trend in the growing number of applications of Indian students in global universities inspite of corona outbreak proves to be a boon for many top abroad universities
There is no doubt that the Coronavirus pandemic has had an impact on college admissions especially to business schools across the world but also leaving a positive impact. Especially when it comes to abroad study applications. After this pandemic, studying in USA and other countries will have new outlook with the new president, the world looks very promising. This pandemic has lead to a rise in various abroad study applications.
Global pandemic might have resulted in economies collapsing, jobs being lost, furloughs being extended, but the Global Higher Education seems to have survived this uneventful year. 2020 could have been the perfect year for Indian students who were planning to study abroad, but the pandemic did play the spoilsport. But even with the prevailing uncertainties there is still a rise in the number of Indian students applying abroad for the forthcoming intakes. The trend has certainly changed, rather evolved, but hasn’t declined as was being anticipated initially when the pandemic broke out, earlier this year.
Some of the recent trends that have been observed are:
Universities going flexible-
In order to ensure that the Universities do not lose out on international applicants, the admission committees of several of the top Universities around the world, turned flexible with the student intake. This trend was observed during the admissions this year, and the same is anticipated for the upcoming intake.
Lowering the admission criteria-
Students have struggled this year when it comes to their academic scores and examinations. With exams being cancelled or postponed several times, this has certainly affected the scores that students must have received, and this adversely would have impacted their chances to get the required predicted scores for the leading Universities. Acknowledging the circumstances, it was observed that a number of major global universities have lowered the minimum eligibility.
Deferring is not cancelling-
It is reported by some of the major Universities that almost half of the applicants this year, received an offer and most of them did pay the admission fees as well. Due to the circumstances, students and their parents are having second thoughts, and health concerns are on the rise, this has resulted in students resorting to delaying their higher education plans where possible. Approximately 50% of students have considered a possibility of a deferral, but the student sentiment is intact. Students are still looking forward to starting their academic journey abroad as soon as it seems viable.
Provisional offers being granted-
Universities have managed to get a hold of the student sentiment, and managed to capitalize on the same. Several of the Universities in the USA made Standardized tests an optional component this year, and some universities have done away with this requirement completely. Entrance exams where necessary, have been a major hurdle for undergraduate aspirants applying abroad. Students are not even preparing for exams which can’t be taken online. This has resulted in International Universities accepting applications from students even without the GMAT, GRE, TOEFL or IELTS scores. In fact, instead, the leading B-school in the world, accepted MBA applications without the GMAT/GRE test results, this was certainly a first. Provisional offers have been granted to the students, and the students can complete the enrollment once they have received the required test results.
In sharp contrast many business schools across the world are seeing a sharp surge in applications.
Some prominent business schools in the US have reported a huge number of applications for their MBA programs. These include the Columbia Business School and the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. The University of Oxford’s said Business School, saw a jump of 35% in MBA applications this year compared to previous years. The Imperial College Business School in London saw a 41% increase in full-time MBA applications compared to the previous year while the Warwick Business School saw a 56% increase in admissions.
The increase in the number of applications is good news for business schools and as they say every cloud has a silver lining. The economic setback due to the pandemic is most likely to benefit business schools across the world even if they have to shift to online teaching or cut costs.
The year 2020 is a witness that not all destruction are bad for example after the great Nagasaki blast in Japan, the economy of Japan revived in a positive way. It’s a theory of nature that after destruction there comes a positive ray. Same as this pandemic where students are boosted up to study abroad and fulfil their dreams towards top foreign universities.
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