University of Cicinnati Attracts Indian Students

The Indian students are more attracted to the foreign universities to continue their Postgraduate programmes in these universities.

The University of Cicinnati (UC), situated in Ohio is looking forward to have more indian students in the coming years reports M Saraswathy of Business Standard.

Jonanthan Weller, Director of International Admission at UV said, "India has been one of our largest international students populations for the past 15 years, with most indian students pursuing postgraduate programmes. We remain committed to India and are announcing several new postgraduate programmes in Engineering, Finance and Law for Indian Students with substantial scholarship to make their students at UC as affordable as possible".

The University of Cincinnati is one of America's top public research institutions with a student population of more than 42,000.

In the year 2010, Indian students studying in the campus were granted scholarships worth Rs 26.4 crores and in the current year Rs. 36.9 crores of scholarships are expected to be given, says weller.

The amount of scholarships varies from department to department, science, engineering and biomedical sciences offer high amounts, whereas branches like Humanities, Education and Social Science offer less.

Apart from enrolling Indian students in the university, UC has also undertaken several faculty projects in india wherein the faculty members visited the country to do research. There are many indians in the faculty board as well.