Nearly Fifty Overseas Universities Interested to Set-Up Campuses, Offer Dual Courses with Indian Colleges

A total of fifty overseas universities have shown interest in the recent initiative of  University Grants Commission’s (UGC)   for offering  joint and dual degree programmes in partnership with Indian colleges.

It is reported that responding to UGC’s new regulation and guidelines for running partnership programmes between Indian and overseas universities, the University of Glasgow, Scotland has expressed interest to discuss the potential for academic collaboration.

It is also learnt that several other varsities have also shown interest in setting up satellite campuses in India. The Deakin University, Australia in its communication to UGC has lauded the New Education Policy (NEP) 2020 calling it a ‘progressive’ policy which will help it to establish new relations with Indian institutions. The NEP 2020 was introduced by the Indian government with a focus on contemporary provisions in higher education.

A report added that the University of Queensland, Australia is set to meet UGC officials in August this year and discussions with a French university are also on the cards. University of Tokyo, Japan and the University of Cambridge are among the other major universities that have shown interest in collaborating with Indian institutions.

Captum feels that, given the encouraging response to the enabling policy initiatives by the Govt of India,  the initial interests of the top notch overseas universities would have to be pursued and, to set the  ball rolling, at least six to seven model joint degrees/satellite campuses finalized within a year.