IITs Madras, Delhi, KGP on fast-track for overseas expansion | Education News,The Indian Express
Two faculty members from IIT-D will also visit Abu Dhabi soon. Apart from IIT-D and IIT-M, IIT Kharagpur is going to launch a campus in Malaysia.
IIT Madras director Prof V Kamakoti said a team led by the institute’s Dean of Global Engagement has been entrusted with the coordination work to set up the institute’s proposed campus in Tanzania which will primarily offer courses in Mining, Metallurgy and Data science.
An official in IIT Delhi, which will have a campus in Abu Dhabi, said teams from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) were in New Delhi recently to study the model followed by IIT-D while also holding talks with teachers and students here. “A dedicated team stationed in Abu Dhabi is working on it,” the official said.
Two faculty members from IIT-D will also visit Abu Dhabi soon. Apart from IIT-D and IIT-M, IIT Kharagpur is going to launch a campus in Malaysia.
Kamakoti said that the proposal was at a “nebulous stage”. When asked if the institute had set a deadline for the project, he said, “We are looking at a year”.
The IIT overseas expansion project has been a refrain of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan.
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