India to receive 4 new foreign education campuses with Australia and UK based universities

The announcement was made at the first session of the Akhil Bhartiya Shiksha Samagam 2025, which was organized on the fifth anniversary of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 on Tuesday.

Four additional leading foreign universities, such as Australia's Victoria University and the UK's University of Bristol, will open campuses in India. At the first meeting of the Akhil Bhartiya Shiksha Samagam 2025, which was held on Tuesday to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, letters of intent to that effect were given to the institutions.  Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan was the primary guest.

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The four institutions are Western Sydney University and Victoria University, which will open campuses in Greater Noida and Noida, respectively. Likewise, Australia's La Trobe University will have its presence in Bengaluru. The University of Bristol, from the United Kingdom, will have a Mumbai campus. The initiative follows a University Grants Commission (UGC) provision notified in 2023, under which foreign universities with global rankings among the top 500 can establish campuses independently in India.

Details of partnership with the universities

The news brings to 13 the number of foreign universities that have opened or plan to open campuses in India. Western Sydney University, one of the top public research universities, will provide undergraduate degrees in business marketing and business analytics as well as postgraduate MBAs in innovation & entrepreneurship and in logistics & supply chain management.

It is already associated with Indian organisations such as IISc, ICAR, AIIA and Jal Shakti Ministry. Victoria University, with its strong foothold in vocational and tertiary education in Australia and internationally, will be providing undergraduate courses in business, data science, and cybersecurity, in addition to postgraduate studies in IT and management.

La Trobe is also a partner university of the India-Australia Sports Partnership and collaborates with AVENU Learning on Indian student diploma streams. La Trobe University, which has a reputation for research in smart cities, molecular sciences, and biotechnology, will be providing business, computer science, and public health undergraduate courses from its Bengaluru campus.

It operates a Joint PhD Academy with IIT Kanpur and is a member of the ASCRIN network along with IIT Kanpur, BITS Pilani, and TISS.