A new report finds that the number of Indian students applying for undergraduate courses in the United States declines by 15%. The figures come from the Common App’s application data, compiled from submissions made through its platform.
The outlets also report broader trends in the same dataset. The Common App data includes information covering more than 1,100 institutions and shows that international applicants, overall, fall 10% through March 1. The report characterizes this drop as the steepest decline on record, indicating a wider downturn beyond students from India.
While both sources highlight the India-specific contraction and cite the Common App as the source, they differ slightly in emphasis: one focuses on the 15% decline for Indian applicants, while the other underscores the 10% overall international decline and the point that the overall fall is the largest recorded. The reports attribute the counts to application activity during the period covered by the data, without identifying specific causes for the decline.
