The University of Wollongong’s new offshore campus will be ranked India’s second-highest university when it opens next week in Gujarat state.
The University of Wollongong is opening Australia’s first university campus in India, saying the precinct will give Indians who can’t afford to live overseas a shot at obtaining a prized Australian degree at half the price.
India wants the Gujarat International Finance Tec-City , located between the cities of Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar, to become an international financial and IT hub. And about 40 per cent of the University’s 12,430 international students in 2022 studied at offshore campuses in Dubai, Malaysia and Hong Kong or in Singapore and China where UOW operates through partnerships with local institutions.“When we start our operation we will be the second-highest ranked university in India , so our belief is that quality will attract numbers,” Frino said.
“It’s a really nice way of kicking off our campus activities because research is part of being a fully-fledged university operating in the way it normally operates in any other country.” The campus will have a starting operating budget of around $1 million per year with the bulk of costs going towards staff and IT, with the premises to be leased.
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