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Liverpool second UK university to open campus in India
NEW DELHI [Maha Media]: The University of Liverpool on Monday received a formal approval from the University Grants Commission (UGC) to open its campus in Bengaluru even as former UGC Chairman M Jagadesh Kumar said foreign institutions will have to invest the revenue generated from Indian campuses here itself.
The University of Liverpool will welcome its first batch of students in August next year. The University of Southampton, the first UK university to receive approval, is set to start offering academic programmes in Gurugram by July this year.
With more foreign universities lined up to set up their campuses here, Kumar said, "All these universities are non-profit institutions and are free to repatriate the revenues to their parent campuses abroad. But we are looking for a long-term collaboration with them. They will have to reinvest the profits here."
These universities had also indicated that their fees in India would be lower than what they charged at their main campuses, he said while talking to The Tribune.
Meanwhile, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan handed over the Letter of Intent (LoI) to representatives of the University of Liverpool here. The university's initial programmes will include business management, accounting and finance, computer science, biomedical sciences and a unique game design course.
