Australia's Deakin opens campus in Gujarat, first foreign university in India

By  India Blooms News Service   Jan 11, 2024

Gandhinagar/IBNS: Australias Deakin has opened its campus in Gujarat becoming the first foreign university to be set up in India, media reports said.

Australias High Commissioner to India, Philip Green, inaugurated the campus at GIFT City in Gujarat Gandhinagar district on Wednesday.

Green said in a statement as quoted by The Print, I am so proud that the first university to establish a campus in India from anywhere in the world is Australias Deakin University at GIFT City.

This opens a new chapter in Australia-India education ties, and this is only the beginning.

Deakins Vice-Chancellor, Prof. @IainMartinVC, had the opportunity to sit down with Indias Prime Minister @narendramodi before the grand opening of Deakins GIFT City Campus the worlds first international university teaching campus in India! ? This meeting signifies a https://t.co/SvoTjgNSn6

In line with the National Education Policy (NEP) in 2020, the University Grants Commission (UGC) notified regulations to allow foreign universities to set up campuses in India.

Deakin University, a public university in Australias Victoria, was founded in 1974.

It was named after Australias second Prime Minister.

In 2021, Deakin ranked among the 30 percent of universities in the world. It ranked third highest university in the world of Sport Science.