Author Archive for Scholarship for USA
Indian Immigrants Returning Home in Greater Numbers
Here is an interesting video that I wanted to share with you guys. We’ve been hearing for a number of years now how more and more Indian immigrants are moving back to India from the U.S., and it seems like the tide is really gaining momentum now. With India’s economy growing, and the U.S.’s shrinking, [...]
Top H-1B States by Number of Applications
Readers often want to know which states hire the most number of international students. A measure of this can be the number of H-1B visa petitions filed by state. This data can give us an idea of which states have the most number of jobs for international students. From looking at data in the H-1B [...]
Top 400 Universities in the World – U.S. Universities Dominate
The QS World University Rankings 2010 reveal that the U.S. remains the dominant power in higher education. In its’ seventh year of ranking universities, QS a leading media, event and software company in the higher education field, found that 53 US universities were in the top 200. University of Cambridge, UK was found to be [...]
Best GRE Prep Books – What others are buying
I was recently looking around for good GRE test prep books, so I went on Amazon and did a basic search on GRE books. The website presented me with a long list of books, CDs, DVDs, flash cards, kindle books, etc. I was confused and didn’t know which to buy. So I went and did [...]
H-1B 2011 Cap Count Update
If you are hoping to apply for an H-1B visa this year, there is still time. As of September 17, USCIS has received only 38,300 applications under the regular cap quota. That means there are still 26,700 H-1B visas available for 2011 out of 65,000 H-1B visas that will be awarded. In the Master’s Exemption [...]
H1B Visa – How to Apply for 2011
Do you want a H1B visa in 2011 to work in the United States? Well, so does Ram, Sham, Tom, Dick and Harry and every other aspiring IT techie brandishing a Bachelor’s degree from IIT and MIT alike. By the way, if you don’t know what those acronyms mean, then you have no business googling [...]
Tax Guidelines for International Students and H1B Workers
Its that time of the year when people all over the U.S are filing their taxes. International students and H1B workers are no exception. They must also file taxes along with over 130 million Americans. However, the guidelines on filing taxes for international students and H1B workers are a little different than the rest of [...]
List of Accredited Universities – Is your institution accredited?
There are many, many colleges and universities in the United States. There are four year colleges, two year colleges, community colleges, state colleges, the Ivy League colleges, liberal arts colleges, online colleges and so on and so forth. With such a wide range of choices, it can be a little mind boggling for the aspiring [...]
US Colleges that Accept IELTS
Gone are the days when TOEFL was the only English language test accepted by US colleges. The International English Language Testing System (IELTS) is now recognized by over 2500 US colleges and universities including all of the Ivy League schools and the California State University graduate school system. Because the IELTS is also accepted by [...]
30 Companies that Hire International Students
Update: We’ve launched a free, searchable database of companies that have sponsored H-1B visas in the recent past. Click here to check it out. There were not a lot of companies that hired international students in 2009. Due to the global recession, companies hired few new workers and lay offs were common. Demand for fresh [...]