in the last twenty years, a large number of students have started migrating to the united states to pursue higher education. a variety of estimates state that over 500,000 indian-american students attend higher-education institutions in any given year. as per institute of international education (iie) 'opendoors' report, 202,014 new students from india enrolled in us education institutions. organizations like the north american association of indian students help organize for the large demographic.