IIT Madras is the first IIT in the country to set up an international campus. (Express File Photo)
The Zanzibar campus is expected to offer a four-year Bachelor of Science degree in Data Science and AI, or a two-year Master of Technology degree in Data Science and AI
Having finalised the first cohort of 70 students, the first off-shore campus of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras in Zanzibar will commence operations in early November, Union Minister of Education Dharmendra Pradhan and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Tuesday.
The two were speaking at the ceremony of the conferment of Honorary Doctorate upon H.E. Samia Suluhu, President of the United Republic of Tanzania at JNU. She was conferred an Honorary Doctorate (Honoris Causa) by the Jawaharlal Nehru University for “her pivotal role in fostering stronger India-Tanzania relations.”
“This institute will prove to be a milestone in educational cooperation between two nations and continents by providing students from Tanzania and other African countries access to world-class engineering and technology education, which will help in nation building and drive economic growth, technology, development and research and innovation in Africa,” Pradhan said.
Speaking after Pradhan, Jaishankar said, that the first cohort of seventy students have been finalised “reminds me of my time in JNU as those years were also the years of inception of the University,” Jaishankar said.
“The institute has the potential to become a premiere educational institution for the entire African continent,” he added.
Earlier this year, Prof Preeti Aghalayam, who was working as a Professor in the Chemical Engineering department at IIT Madras, was appointed as the head of the Zanzibar campus.
The Zanzibar campus is expected to offer a four-year Bachelor of Science degree in Data Science and AI, or a two-year Master of Technology degree in Data Science and AI. by Raunaq Saraswat, The Indian Express
