At The PIE Reside India 2025 in Delhi final week, The PIE’s CEO Amy Baker spoke to vice-president worldwide and engagement on the College of Southampton and India Enterprise Group CEO Amarjit Singh.
Atherton and Singh have been each instrumental within the College of Southampton’s plans to open a campus within the Gurgaon, situated close to Delhi, later this 12 months. The brand new campus was revealed in December, making the establishment the primary of a slew of UK universities to discover TNE alternatives in India of late.
Atherton revealed that, regardless of solely submitting an utility to open the campus in early 2024, the College of Southampton’s India campus is about to open in August of this 12 months. The campus has already obtained over 300 purposes, he stated, with round 200 of these being accepted.
Whereas many of those college students have already paid their tuition deposits, some have even paid for his or her program in full, Atherton famous.
Nearly all of candidates want to research undergraduate applications, with this cohort making up two-thirds of potential college students to one-third who might be postgraduate college students. And the campus is attracting consideration from worldwide college students, with candidates from Nepal and the Gulf amongst different nations, he stated.
Atherton stated the method to open the brand new Southampton campus had been “quick, frenetic [and] thrilling” from begin to end.
Now having recognized the placement of its campus, the College of Southampton is specializing in recruiting extra college students and workers, in addition to transferring applications and course supplies to India.
It’s been fairly full on for the final 12-15 months
Andrew Atherton, College of Southampton
“It’s been fairly full on for the final 12-15 months,” he informed The PIE Information.
In the meantime, Singh stated it had been “a pleasure” for India Enterprise Group to assist the College of Southampton in “actually serving to to construct significant partnerships… [how] the college being right here can assist and develop the analysis and innovation ecosystem in India”.
Elsewhere at The PIE Reside India, over 300 delegates gathered collectively to listen to about different TNE alternatives and India’s rising ambition to grow to be a hub of worldwide schooling within the area.
