Falling rupee puts foreign study costs under scanner

The rupee's depreciation against the US dollar to a historic low is forcing students headed abroad for higher education to rethink how they fund their degrees.

- Mansi Verma & Devina Sengupta

Yearly cost for degrees can be $55,000-100,000.

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This comes at a time when a global employment squeeze is prompting many graduates to return to India without securing work abroad, leaving them to repay loans that are now costlier than they had budgeted for in rupee terms.