Photo via Times of India

'Do not come to USA for your masters': Ed-tech entrepreneur warns Indian students about returning with huge debt

Read the original at Times of India ↗
Cite

Ghosh, P. (2026, October 3). 'Do not come to USA for your masters': Ed-tech entrepreneur warns Indian students about returning with huge debt. Times of India. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/do-not-come-to-usa-for-your-masters-ed-tech-entrepreneur-warns-indian-students-about-returning-with-huge-debt/articleshow/134665487.cms

Dated when The Aporia collected the article, usually within hours of publication. Check the original for its exact date and byline.

Times of India · collected 2026-10-03 · by Poulomi Ghosh

Quick Summary

No summary of this article yet; the story summary below covers the event.

AI analysis

Story summary

Ed-tech entrepreneur Dhaval Patel warned Indian students against pursuing master's degrees in the US due to increasing visa restrictions and high costs. He cited his conversations with an acquaintance who graduated from Stevens Institute of Technology but couldn't find a job or secure an H-1B visa, forcing him to return to India with significant debt—around $100,000 for a two-year program. Patel emphasized that the financial burden includes tuition fees and living expenses totaling nearly 95 lakh INR (about $11,764 per year). The warning reflects growing concerns among Indian students about the job market and visa policies in the US.

Written for “Indian Students Warning USA Education…” on 2026-11-03, grounded in this article and the 0 other(s) covering the same event.

Story

📰 Indian Students Warning USA Education…
Education · 1 article(s) covering the same event.

Compared with similar articles

Nothing to compare against. No article is close enough to this one for the pipeline to have linked or judged the pair.
How this article was measured signals, leaning charts, publisher record, byline, topics and claims

Signals How these are calculated →

Claims extracted
14
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
0%
0 of 14 hedged ("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
Leans right
of the writing, not the subject · beta estimate
Publisher signals
59/100
Times of India's corrections and hedging, across everything collected from it. Not a measure of accuracy.
Outlets on this story
1
Education
Same framing elsewhere
1
articles that frame the event the way this one does
Analyzed 2026-10-03 · how these are computed

How this is being covered How these are calculated →

Article leaning vs. publisher reliability
Source leaning vs. consistency

Publisher

Times of India · 4006 article(s) · 4 correction(s) detected
Running correction rate · 4 correction(s)

Who wrote this

Poulomi Ghosh
102 article(s) here · 1 carrying a prediction
🔮 The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has confirmed the crash and said the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) will lead the investigation.
🔮 In the interview, she spoke about the unusual experience of being able to fly an aircraft before she could drive a car.
🔮 In the interview, she spoke about the unusual experience of being able to fly an aircraft before she could drive a car.
🔮 The decision sparked outrage on social media, with users questioning how a man who had arrived at a hospital with a gunshot wound shortly after a violent home invasion could leave without being arrested.
🔮 During an appearance on Ramaswamy's podcast in May 2024, Coulter told him she would not have voted for him in the presidential election because he was Indian.
🔮 Jin announced the initial rejection on October 28 through a Facebook post, sharing what appeared to be a US visa refusal notice. He expressed strong regret over the decision, saying it was difficult to understand how the US could deny his application when he had previously visited the US Pacific Command in March 2014 as a member of a parliamentary committee.
🔮 46-year-old Simeswell Cyril, an Indian national, is now being held in Sydney immigration detention and will be facing deportation from the country because of his fraudulent compensation claim.
🔮 US President Donald Trump has agreed to grant an immediate visa to the mother of 15-year-old Javits Frimpong, who was fatally shot while walking to school in New York City's Bronx neighbourhood, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced on Saturday.
🔮 She would stop them for a few minutes as they travelled along the sidewalk carrying food orders.
🔮 Dozens of Afghan migrants detained in the United States are expected to be deported as early as next week, potentially including relatives of Afghans who worked alongside American military forces during the war in Afghanistan.
Also by Poulomi Ghosh
Nothing else under this byline is closely related to this article, so these are simply their most recent.
All 102 articles by Poulomi Ghosh →

Topics

India Indian Indians LinkedIn Stevens Institute of Technology

Subjects

Indian NORP · 4× Americans NORP · 1× Dhaval Patel PERSON · 1× India GPE · 1× Indians NORP · 1× LinkedIn ORG · 1× Patel PERSON · 1× Stevens Institute of Technology ORG · 1×

Narrative

OPT, H-1B crackdown in the US The warning comes amid a tense situation for Indians in the US, with the administration cracking down on visa abuse and thus narrowing the scope of international students getting jobs after their studies.
framing: assertive · carried by 1 article(s) · first seen 2026-10-03
🔮 Most of his friends who studied with him had to go back to India as they couldn't get a job/h1b visa.

Claims (14 extracted, 0 hedged)

An ed-tech entrepreneur shared his view of the job market for Indian students in the US after they complete higher studies at US colleges or universities and said Indian students should not come to the US for their master's. asserted
students → share → master
Dhaval Patel, an Indian founder, said this is his personal opinion that he arrived at after speaking to a student, and he was not spreading fear. asserted
he → say → fear
Citing figures, Patel said that an Indian student comes to study in the US empty handed but when they go back without finding any job, they have a huge debt on their shoulders, as a master's course of two years costs around $100K. " asserted
course → cite → 100K.
I am saying this based on a conversation I have had with a guy a couple of days ago who completed his master's from a reputed and credible college (Stevens Institute of Technology (NJ)). asserted
who → say → Technology
Most of his friends who studied with him had to go back to India as they couldn't get a job/h1b visa. asserted
they → study → visa
Going back with a huge debt can be quite challenging," he wrote in a LinkedIn Post. asserted
he → go → Post
"I've seen many others struggle as well and this is not a one-off incident. asserted
this → see → ?
Now of course there are outliers, people with exceptional skill and luck who will get a job + h1b but the % of that happening is low," he added. asserted
he → be → job
OPT, H-1B crackdown in the US The warning comes amid a tense situation for Indians in the US, with the administration cracking down on visa abuse and thus narrowing the scope of international students getting jobs after their studies. asserted
students → come → studies
OPT, STEM-OPT used to be a pipeline for international students to get into jobs. asserted
students → use → jobs
But the administration vowed that any program that is giving international students and foreign workers more chance that equally skilled Americans will be ended. asserted
that → vow → chance
Transitioning from an F-1 visa to an H-1B has become tougher. asserted
Transitioning → transition → H-1B
H-1B is also getting costlier, with the administration imposing a hefty fee on it, which is still being blocked by courts. asserted
which → get → courts
IT staffing companies are facing a probe, and many IT giants are facing delays in H-1B extension petitions this month. asserted
giants → face → petitions
💬Give feedback
🕘History 🎫Support