New Delhi: To facilitate Internationalization of Higher Education in India, a Programme viz. ‘Study in India’ has been launched on 18.04.2018 with the objectives to make India an education hub for foreign students; improve the soft power of India with focus on the neighbouring countries and use it as a tool in diplomacy; to rapidly increase the inflow of inbound International Students in India through a systematic brand-building, marketing, social media and digital marketing campaigns; to increase India’s market share of global education exports; improvement in overall quality of higher education; to reduce the export-import imbalance in the number of international students; growth in India’s global market share of International students; and increase in global ranking of India etc.
To start with, the programme focuses on International students from select 30 countries across South-East Asia, Middle East and Africa for a period of two years i.e. for the academic years 2018-19 and 2019-20. The programme envisages participation of select reputed Indian institutes/universities by way of offering seats for the International students at affordable rates. This Programme does not offer any Scholarships, however, fee waivers to meritorious foreign students ranging from 100% to 25% are offered.
A centralised admission web-portal (https://studyinindia.gov.in/) acts as a single window for the admission of foreign students. EdCIL(India) Limited is the implementing agency for the Programme.
