India, May 14 -- HT Syndication

New Delhi [India], May 14: How do Indian students actually choose a college? And once they're inside, how does the experience compare to what they were promised?

A new study from FindMyCollege.com set out to answer both questions. The platform serves over five million student searches a year. For this study, it surveyed current students and recent graduates from across India.

The findings are uncomfortable.

Students rely most on placement data, salary figures, and recruiter lists. These are also the things they later call inflated, hard to find, or missing. The information that is reliable -- like fees -- rarely drives the decision. The gap between what was promised and what was delivered is widest in e...