York, Southampton: UK universities flock to India – but will they succeed?

“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,” Aritra Ghosal of OneStep Global, which helps foreign universities enter the Indian market, told the BBC.