India is home to about 367 million young people between the ages of 15 and 29, the largest youth population in the world. This also preludes the country's growing education sector, which caters to approximately 40 million students.
While a good number of students head to universities abroad, others are left facing a system of entrances and interviews that even fewer are able to qualify for. According to Aritra Ghoshal of OneStep Global, which helps foreign universities enter the Indian market, "Eleven million students complete Grade 12 [final school year in India] each year, with roughly 1.5-1.7 million falling within the top academic bracket. India's top-tier institutions admit only about 200,000 of them annually."
