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VIT becomes first Indian university with Columbia dual degree
Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) has signed an MoU with Columbia Engineering in New York to offer dual degree programmes to engineering students. The agreement was signed by VIT founder and chancellor…
Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) has signed an MoU with Columbia Engineering in New York to offer dual degree programmes to engineering students. The agreement was signed by VIT founder and chancellor G. Viswanathan and Columbia University dean Soulaymane Kachani in the presence of India's consul general in New York, Binaya Srikanta Pradhan.
Under the partnership, VIT becomes the first Indian university to enter into a dual degree agreement with Columbia University. The programme aims to provide students international academic exposure and world-class engineering pathways.
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The MoU places VIT among a small group of Indian private universities with direct dual degree links to an Ivy League institution. Such agreements typically involve students spending two years at VIT and two at Columbia, earning degrees from both. For Indian engineering students, Columbia Engineering ranks among the top five US graduate schools for computer science and electrical engineering. The next step will be curriculum alignment and credit transfer approval by both universities' academic boards.
Source: thehindu.com
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