Australia and Canada are going to benefit from protectionist policies of US, UK. Here’s how

After US President Donald Trump tightened migration and H1-B visa rules, it is expected British Prime Minister Theresa May will also follow suit. Now, US and UK are looking towards tightening migration rules and protectionist policies. This move, in turn, is repelling many Indian students from studying in UK and US universities, and this has become a win-win situation for several other countries such as Australia and Canada.

According to admission consultants, many of international schools are now reaching out to Indian students, who are rattled by the rhetoric coming out from London and Washington, DC.

"With Trump being vocal about the H-1B visas and the UK formally announcing to halve their student visa intake from 300,000 to 177,000, aspirants are looking for safer education destinations like Canada, mainland Europe and the Asia Pacific. And the B-schools in Asia and Canada are supposedly the beneficiaries," Rajiv Ganjoo, CEO of WhiteGlow Consulting, told ET.

He also said that he recently interacted with representatives of more than 15 Asian B-schools and many of these schools, he said, are now considering to expand their student intake.

"Till date, these B-schools in Asia were formally not marketing their business programmes and were able to get seats filled because of the small intake. But now they are looking at expanding their presence," he told ET.

Narayanan Ramaswamy, partner-education and skill development sector at KPMG in India, also said that Australia is trying to hard-sell itself to Indian students and that several states in the country were proactively working towards projecting them as a better education option.

"Even Germany, France, Italy and some Scandinavian countries have been trying to do events here," he told ET.

with Brexit and Trump being elected, student are looking for European schools and such schools are becoming an option for Indians because they are getting a spillover from the students who wanted to head to the UK.