New Delhi
India's elite, public Indian Institutes of Technology and Indian Institutes of Management plan to add extra seats for international students to bolster their global standing and attract top talent to further their research and development efforts.
The seven graduate-level management schools have already received approval from the Indian government to set up campuses abroad and are now planning to reserve 10 percent of their seats at each school for students from abroad, The Times of India reported.
"To qualify for admission to India's best b-schools, the foreign students might be required to take a separate test, something on the lines of Graduate Management Admission Test," Devi Singh, head of the Lucknow management school, told The Hindustan Times, another newspaper.
"Once this works out, we can even have students from countries like the U.S.," Ajit Balakrishnan, head of the Kolkata management school, told the Indian Express. "It will give more exposure to students and enrich their experience too. There is no longer any shortage of teachers. We are getting good teachers. The shortage disappeared, especially after the slowdown."
The Indian Institutes of Technology plan to introduce scholarships and reduced fees to attract more foreign graduate students. Currently foreign students have to pay much higher tuition than their Indian counterparts, whose tuition is government-subsidized.
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