U.S. Consul General Visits EducationUSA Center at Y-Axis Foundation
Hyderabad – U.S. Consul General Jennifer Larson visited the EducationUSA Center at the Y-Axis Foundation to mark International Education Week and encourage Indian students to study in the United States. Consul General Larson met with Y-Axis Foundation’s CEO Xavier Augustin, COO Sabina Xavier, and a group of EducationUSA advisors who provide free education advising services to Indian students who wish to study in U.S. colleges and universities.
“Nearly 200,000 Indian students chose the United States as their higher education destination in the 2021-22 academic year, which plays a key role in expanding the U.S.-India partnership among the next generation of leaders” said Consul General Larson. “If you’d like to join their ranks – but you don’t know where to start your research – EducationUSA has free webinars and advising sessions that can help put you on your way to studying in the United States.”
“Every student who goes to the U.S. to study carries in him or her the promise and potential to achieve something great and impactful,” added Xavier Augustin, Founder & CEO, Y-Axis Foundation. “Few catalysts can be as transformative as the U.S. education and experience to our youth. I am so proud of what the partnership of EducationUSA and Y-Axis Foundation achieved so far. We hope to continue to create more Global Indians through our efforts.”
The Y-Axis Foundation is host to an EducationUSA network advising center, which is part of the U.S. State Department’s official network of education advisers. Located on Road No.36 in Jubilee Hills, the advisory center has a well-equipped library filled with the best books written for U.S. education. EducationUSA’s education advising services are free of charge and its advisors are experts trained by the U.S. Department of State.
Consul General Larson’s trip to the Y-Axis Foundation followed the release of this year’s Open Doors report, an annual publication released by the Institute of International Education. According to the report, nearly 200,000 Indian students chose to study in the United States during the 2021-2022 academic year, a 19 percent increase over the previous year. The report also noted that almost 21 percent of the over one million foreign students studying in the United States are Indian students. The U.S. Mission in India has also issued more than 82,000 student visas in 2022, a new single-year record. Indian students received more U.S. student visas than any other country in 2022.