1. Dr. K.B. Praveena
ASST. PROFESSOR IN EDUCATION (PG)
Hamid Mohammad Azimi
RESEARCH SCHOLAR
UNIVERSITY OF MYSORE
DEPARTMENT OF STUDIES
IN EDUCATION
MANASAGANGOTRI,
570006,MYSORE
Karnataka India
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2. Title of Presentation:
Entry of Foreign Universities in India: an
Opportunity or a Threat
Submitted to:
M. S. Ramaiah Institute of Management
8th
March, 2013 2

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4. Entry of Foreign Universities in India
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7. Higher Education System of India
• Central Universities 20
• State Universities 217
• Deemed Universities 104
• Institutions 5
• Private Universities 6
• Degree and post-graduate colleges 18,064
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8. India has the third largest higher education
system in the world
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9. India already has world class educational
institutions like IITs, IIMs, the All India Institute
of Medical Sciences; etc.
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10. One of the reasons for the phenomenal success of
the IITs and the IIMs was the assistance they got
from reputed foreign universities.
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11. • United States get $16 billion dollars through
education.
• Australia, Singapore, United Kingdom and other
advanced countries earn huge sum in the
education sector. Education is the second largest
foreign exchange earner in these countries.
• On the contrary India sends 1,60,000 students
every year to United States and attracts only 9000
students from all over the world
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12. The recent London Times Higher Education Supplement
ranking of the world's top 200 universities included :
• three in China,
• three in Hong Kong,
• three in South Korea,
• one in Taiwan,
• and one in India (Indian Institute of Technology)
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13.  China is providing access to large numbers of students
at the bottom of the academic system while at the same
time building some research-based universities that are
able to compete with the world's best institutions.
China in particular is heavily investing in improving its
best universities with the aim of making a small group of
them world class in the coming decade, and building
them as internationally competitive research universities.13

14. INTEREST OF FOREIGN UNIVERSITIES IN INDIA
Nearly 50 proposals from foreign universities
including:
are expected to be waiting for the Government’s clearance.14

15. HBS is keen to find permanent premises for its executive
education programs instead of conducting classes at five-
star hotels in prominent Indian cities.
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17. ADVANTAGES
 STOPS BRAIN DRAIN
 MORE RESEARCH WORK
 BETTER OPPORTUNITIES
 NO EFFECT ON INDIAN CULTURE AND ETHOS
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18. ...ADVANTAGES
 LESS EXPENSIVE
 WILL RAISE THE INDIAN
EDUCATION STANDARDS
 EMPLOYMENT
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19. DISADVANTAGES
 MISS THE INTERNATIONAL EXPOSURE
 VESTED INTERESTS OF
FOREIGN UNIVERSITIES
 NOT A MAGIC WAND
 CRAZE OF FOREIGN UNIVERSITIES
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20. BARRIERS
TO ENTRY OF FOREIGN UNIVERSITIES
IN INDIA
 Land acquisition issues
 Labour issues
 No certainty in Sibal’s statements
 Profit repatriation
 The costs of setting a campus
 Going abroad is an education in itself 20

21. Academic Collaborations
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22. ... Academic Collaborations
 Research Collaborations
 Faculty Exchange Programs
 Host Institution
1) RESEARCH ONLY
2) TEACHING
3) GUEST LECTURER
• Visiting Faculty
• Student Exchange Programs 22

23. .....It may be much better for India to explore the
possibility of collaborating, cooperating and
exchanging programs with institutions abroad,
rather than ...
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