University of Southampton to offer 30 courses; Enroll over 5000 students in India campus

Recently, the University of Southampton UK announced to open of its first offshore campus in India. The university is all set to offer 30 courses in eight years. The student intake will be more than 5000. The university will function as per the guidelines of UGC.

After the University of Southampton UK announced to open of a new campus in India, now it was revealed that there will be 30 courses offered at the India campus and it will enrol over 5,000 students in the next 8 years.

Andrew Atherton, Vice President of International and Engagement said that the admission requirement for the university will be the same as for the UK university but the fees will be nearly 60% of the tuition fees of the UK campus, as reported by Economic Times.

"The aim is to grow up to 5,500 students in the first eight to 10 years. So the first year will start small. We will start with six courses, including four undergraduate and two postgraduate programmes. The four UG programmes will be in computing with a focus on AI and data science and also in business with a focus on entrepreneurship. The postgraduate programs will be in computing as well as technology," he said.

"And then over each year, we will introduce between two and four new programmes so that we will build up to over 30 different programmes, about 20 undergraduate and 12 postgraduate taught programmes. So we expect it to be a mainly undergraduate campus because the majority of the demand at the moment in India we believe is for undergraduate programmes and then that gives students the opportunity to go overseas for postgraduate master's study as well," he added.

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The campus in India will be also open to foreign students.

While confirming this, he said, "There might be some international students who would be interested in the India campus rather than the UK because of geographical proximity. You can see some countries within two- to three-hour flights from India where there are strong Indian populations or local populations who are interested in a Southampton degree. So we believe it will become a regional hub."

"We also believe the majority of the students will be Indian because the scale of demand and quality of students in India is huge. At the moment, although there is expansion in the higher education sector, the expansion of seats is nowhere near as high as the growth in demand for additional seats in universities," he added.

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