washington the number of indian students in american universities and colleges is nearing two lakh as latest official data released on friday said that they now number over 194000 a jump of more than 31 per cent in one yearthe number of fm students from india studying in the us grew from 148360 in march 2015 to 194438 in march 2016 an increase of 311 per cent according to the latest sevis by the numbers a quarterly report on foreign student trends prepared by student and exchange visitor program sevpthere are nearly 12 million international students with f academic or m vocational status studying in the ussevis is part of us immigration and customs enforcements ice homeland security investigations hsibased on data extracted from sevis march 7 international student enrollment at us schools increased 62 per cent compared to march 2015in march there were 8687 us schools with sevp certification to enroll international students a three per cent decrease from the previous year ice said in a releaseaccording to the report 82 per cent of f m students from india pursue degrees in a stem field stem stands for science technology engineering and mathematicsmore stem students are from india than any other country it saidon the other hand 69 per cent of all f m students who pursue mathematics and statistics coursework are from china it saidice report said 40 per cent of international students studying in the us equaling almost 479000 individuals were enrolled in stem courseworkapproximately 417000 international students from asia pursued stem studies an increase of 17 per cent since march 2015 it addedin march more than 75 per cent of the m vocational student population was malesixtyfour per cent of m students majored in transportation and materials moving with a focus on air ground or marine transportationamong us schools new york university the university of southern california northeastern university columbia university and the university of illinois rank one through five for schools with the highest international student populations more than 10000 international students were enrolled at each school in march as many as 77 per cent of all international students were from asiathe top 10 countries of citizenship for international students included china india south korea saudi arabia canada vietnam japan taiwan brazil and mexico