University opens new India links
Lancaster University has opened a new campus – in India.
The first 300 students have taken up their places at the GD Goenka World Institute, established to cater for the rising demand for quality higher education in India.
It will also provide avenues for higher education to its students and help produce the business leaders of tomorrow.
Following graduation, students will receive a Lancaster University degree.
Lancaster's links with India come through its international partnership with Goenka and is the first, and so far only, university to deliver higher educational qualifications at the GD Education City in India, a 60-acre site located near Delhi.
Lancaster University's vice-chancellor Professor Paul Wellings said: "We believe that the combination of Lancaster University's academic expertise and the GD Goenka Group's knowledge of India will provide people in India with a major new type of higher education opportunity."
This year, Lancaster's Management School will deliver undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in India. The school is ranked in the UK's top four and among the world's highly ranked management and business schools.
One in five of Lancaster's students is from outside the UK.
Plans are also afoot to launch a partnership with COMSATS University in Pakistan.
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