Delegation that went to NAFSA. (Representative image/ Source: @EduMinOfIndia)
A high-level delegation from India’s Ministry of Education, led by Joint Secretary Shri Govind Jaiswal, is participating in the prestigious NAFSA 2025 Conference, a global gathering of international educators. At the event, the India Pavilion — jointly inaugurated by AICTE Chairman Prof. T.G. Sitharam and Govind Jaiswal— highlights the country’s expanding academic outreach under the Study in India initiative.
Representatives from over 30 top Indian institutions are engaging in dialogues to promote student mobility, cross-border collaborations, and faculty exchange programmes, reinforcing India’s role in the global education ecosystem.
India has been promoting ‘Study in India’ initiative for the past few years now. As a part of this, the University Grants Commission (UGC) is also inviting several foreign universities from around the globe to set up a campus in India.
As part of this initiative by UGC, Australia’s University of Wollongong (UOW) and Deakin University became the first two foreign universities to set up physical campuses in India. Both the varsities set up campuses in India’s new Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT City).
Deakin University is one of Australia’s renowned universities, and is now offering its flagship programmes – Master of Business Analytics and the Master of Cyber Security, at the international branch campus in GIFT City. The University of Wollongong (UOW) Australia launched its campus in November 2024, and is offering courses of Master of Financial Technology, Master of Financial Technology (Extension), and a Graduate Certificate in Financial Technology.
Following this, University of Western Australia announced plans to open a campus in India. A few days later, UK’s York University also announced plans of setting up a campus in Mumbai. Meanwhile, University of Southampton, a leading UK-based Russell Group institution, also established a campus in Delhi and has already has already started accepting applications for its Delhi for the August 2025 academic session.
The latest foreign university to add its name to this growing list is UK’s University of Liverpool. UoL has become the first international university to announce a campus in Bengaluru.
There has also been news that Georgia National University, a private university in Tbilisi, Georgia, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Andhra Pradesh government to establish an International University in North Andhra.
