Three foreign universities approved for campuses in India

The Union Education Ministry issued letters of approval on June 9 to the University of Bristol, the University of York and the University of New South Wales for new campuses in India.

The letters were handed over by Vineet Joshi, Secretary of the Department of Higher Education and Chairman of the University Grants Commission, in the presence of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan. Bristol and York will set up campuses in Mumbai. UNSW will open its Bengaluru campus at Manyata Business Park from August 2026. Pradhan said the move advances the internationalisation goals of the National Education Policy 2020. The campuses will offer programmes in fields such as finance, data science, computer science with artificial intelligence, and cyber security.

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