Bangalore, India (AHN) – The battle for one-upmanship between South Asian economic giants India and China has entered the arena of higher education, as China recently overtook its neighbor in terms of sending more students to management schools in the United States.
For many years now, Indian students led the number of foreigners enrolling for the Graduate Management Admission Test to U.S. B-schools. However, propelled by fast economic growth, China has overtaken India in the numbers – as many as 80,000 Chinese students applied to U.S. management schools this year against 65,361 Indian students.
Both countries are emerging economies raring to find a foothold on the global stage. While India has, for long, been outperforming China in clinching senior executive positions in leading multinational corporations, the Chinese, known to be hard workers, are doing everything they can to catch up.
From bridging the gap in using English more prominently, overcoming the inability to work with outsiders, being more tolerant of change, the Chinese are making sure that they outperform India soon in the sphere of business.
Experts suggest that “India’s edge in English language and sound management education helps Indians in snatching more senior executive positions than Chinese, but the latter, being fast learners, are expected to catch up soon.”
However, there might be other reasons behind China gaining ground slowly. Indian business schools, such as the Indian Institutes of Management (IIM) and Indian School of Business (ISB), are rising fast as “competitive business schools” globally. As a result, more and more Indian students prefer to take up management studies at home instead of going abroad.
Moreover, unlike overseas business schools, Indian higher education institutions are more difficult to get into, as observed by Infosys co-founder N.R. Narayana Murthy, who recounted in a recent television interview how his son Rohan could not get admission into Indian Institute of Technology and had to opt for Cornell University instead.
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