Yale to focus more on India

Updated on: Friday, September 24, 2010

Yale University intends to focus more on India and make it a leading university in the US for teaching of India, according to a media report.

Yale president Richard C. Levin told the Wall Street Journal, “Yale was earlier, devoting pretty large resources to China, but following 2008 the Ivy League school in New Haven, Connecticut, is devoting a much wider portion of intellectual activities to India.”

He said that the number of students at Yale from China and India has doubled in the last 10 years but China (350) sends more students to Yale than India (140). "We hope to establish Yale as a leading university in the US for teaching of India," he said.

Levin added that rival institutions such as Columbia University in New York, Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the University of Chicago have formidable resources and connections with India.

Levin said that Yale has added Indian specialists to its faculty ranks in economics, political science, anthropology and other fields since 2008. It has expanded conferences and research collaborations with India-based institutions. It also has plans to engage the Indian diaspora with programmes and lectures in the US.

Asked if Yale would open a campus in India, Levin said, "I don't think we're ready to start a university in India at the present time."

Yale to focus more on India

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