Does rupee depreciation make an MS abroad more expensive?

Why the scare version overstates it

Two errors are common. First, fees are billed per year or per semester, so your first instalment converts at today's rate and only the later ones are exposed — applying several years of depreciation to the whole bill at once inflates the damage. Second, the student is usually planning to earn in the same foreign currency afterwards, which is the natural hedge against the exposure the article just described.

The 4.2% figure is a compound annual rate across a five-year window that happens to cover an unusually weak stretch for the rupee. It is a scenario, not a forecast. Nobody can predict currency movements, and any tool or adviser claiming to is selling something.

The case where it genuinely is one-way risk

If you intend to return to India straight after the course, you pay the depreciated fees and earn in rupees — no offset at all. That asymmetry, not the headline rate, is the thing worth planning around, and it is the case consultants are least likely to raise because it argues against the expensive options they are placing you into.

You can run your own numbers on our rupee-depreciation tool, which shows both sides and lets you set the rate yourself.

Verify these numbers yourself

• Exchange rates: Internal Revenue Service, 'Yearly average currency exchange rates' — India, Rupee (2021-2025), irs.gov; source page last reviewed 2026-02-24, checked by us 2026-08-02
• The IRS states it has no official exchange rate and accepts any consistently used posted rate — this is a published yearly average, not a central-bank reference rate

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