220 foreign students apply at IIT Kharagpur for courses

As part of an initiative to boost presence of foreign students on its campus by offering scholarships, IIT Kharagpur has received close to 220 applications from international students for various degree programmes this year. acceptance rate of international students in various masters and doctoral degree programmes is about eight per cent, of whom 11 students have alrey joined  institute for acemic year starting 2019, an IIT KGP statement said.

"Internationalisation is a priority for our institute, especially with country making it a thrust area in recently anunced budget. "Each international applicant goes through an extremely rigorous evaluation process and I am very pleased with increasing number of excellent foreign students coming into IIT Kharagpur in recent years, statement quoted Baidurya Bhattacharya, Dean, International Relations, as saying.

 institute has scholarship programmes funded by its alumni, in dition to scholarships offered by  Indian Council for Cultural Relations and MHRDs 'Study in India'.  institute received applications from SAARC countries including Afghanistan, Banglesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, two ASEAN countries - Vietnam, Laos, and two from Latin America - Colombia, Venezuela, statement said.

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Applications also came from African countries namely Magascar, Kenya, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Angola, Sudan,  Central Asian country of Uzbekistan,  Pacific island of Fiji, Middle Eastern nations including Iran, Syria, Palestine and Saudi Arabia, and Russia and South Korea.

" presence of international students in our institute brings a fresh perspective to our classrooms and labs and enriches our campus life. This global perspective is going to benefit India in long run," Bhattacharya said.

In several countries, international students have to pay higher fees for degree programmes. At IIT Kharagpur, however, international fees for most gruate degree programmes are minal, he said.  MTech programmes mitting foreign students this semester include Aero Engineering, Biotechlogy, Chemical Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mamatics, and Mechanical Engineering.

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doctoral programme in School of Medical Science and Techlogy and MBA programme in Vid Gupta School of Manment, each got one international mission in this semester. For n-degree programmes in 2019, till this date,  institute has received 50 applications from  USA, Cana, UK, Germany, France, rway, Spain, Japan, Rwanda, and Iran.

"Of 50, 13 students were accepted through various funding programmes," statement said.