Passport to Study

guesstimates

India-specific
Set in India; the figures and context are India’s.

What this case is about

Your client is an Indian student mobility organization planning its support capacity. It wants to estimate how many unique people travel from India to the United States by air in a year during the pandemic. Travel restrictions are in place, and for this estimate you can focus on students rather than business or leisure travelers.

Objective

Estimate annual unique student air travelers from India to the United States using a transparent population funnel and sanity-check the key conversion assumptions.

Skills this case tests

Structuring the problem
Working the numbers
Judgement and recommendation