A global endeavour in education

Updated on: Monday, November 29, 2010

The Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) has partnered with the Shiv Nadar Foundation (SNF) for an undergraduate programme in engineering. The course that offers both mechanical and electrical engineering will also give students the opportunity to study at the CMU. The curriculum of the new course is designed by the CMU and will be taught by the faculty of the SSN institutions in India. The admission and academic processes will have the same rigorous standards that are followed at CMU. After the course, students will get a Carnegie Mellon University certificate. “India’s engineers constitute a large proportion of the world’s key scientific and research establishments. The partnership will help us offer a distinctive edge to Indian students,” said Jared Cohon, President, CMU.

Indian partnerships
Yale University, the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Kozhikode, and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur have formed a partnership to advance higher education in India through academic leadership development programmes. The partnership which is part of the ‘Singh Obama Knowledge Initiative’ will take effect from January 2011, and will be located in two new Centres of Excellence for Academic Leadership (CEAL) that are being established at IIM-Kozhikode and IIT-Kanpur by the HRD Ministry. The flagship programme of the partnership will be a new “India-Yale University Leadership Program,” to be developed
by Yale University in consultation with IIM-K and IIT-K, that will expose university and academic leaders in India to the best practices of academic administration and institutional management in the US. The partners will also engage in joint faculty research on higher education.

A global endeavour in education

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