Leaving home to study in an alien country can be scary. KAREN CHAPMAN follows a group of Malaysian undergraduates for the first part of their medical training in Manipal, India.
LOCATED on the picturesque Malabar Coast of southwest India is a thriving university town known as Manipal. From communications and journalism to medicine, dentistry, nursing, allied health, engineering and hotel management, local and international undergraduates as well as postgraduates have made it home while they pursued an education.