Nepali students are flocking abroad for their higher education in droves, with their numbers increasing each year.
In August, Nepali Sansar reported that the country’s Foreign Education Department Chief Girman Thapa said 323,972 Nepali students sought permission to study abroad. From this figure, 63,359 students applied for higher education overseas.
Official government statistics note that just over 16,500 students studied abroad in 2013/14; the figure rose to nearly 63,000 in 2017/18.
In July, the Nepali Times reported that Nepali students going abroad for higher studies spent 19.7 percent more in the past year compared to the previous one, reaching Rs40.09 billion (approximately US$351 million at the time of writing).
Five years ago, only 25,025 Nepali students studied abroad, spending Rs15.12 billion (US$132 million).
Do these numbers suggest that Nepal is poised to become an important growth market for international higher education?
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