Reportedly Indian institute of technology, Madras is in talk with 20 American universities to set to a joint PhD programme. No doubt that IIT gets best UG students across the country, but there phD programmes are not going too good. Most IIT undergraduates left for high-paying jobs or management education after their degree and the remaining went for PhD in overseas universities, they are not interested in IITs.
This is one of the biggest challenge for all IITs, since long time all the IITs were working to change this. Finally IIT Madras has found one uniques solution for this.
Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM) director Bhaskar Ramamurthy and external relations dean R Nagarajan went to 20 American universities.
Ramamurthy wanted to sow the ground first with US universities before offering joint PhD programmes. Their tour went exceptionally well. US universities were too keen to collaborate with IIT Madras.
Michigan State University was eager to get to a joint PhD programme quickly, as soon as later this year. Two others, Purdue University and the University of Maryland, also wanted to move on to deeper relationships culminating in a joint PhD programme.
This is one of the biggest challenge for all IITs, since long time all the IITs were working to change this. Finally IIT Madras has found one uniques solution for this.
Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM) director Bhaskar Ramamurthy and external relations dean R Nagarajan went to 20 American universities.
Ramamurthy wanted to sow the ground first with US universities before offering joint PhD programmes. Their tour went exceptionally well. US universities were too keen to collaborate with IIT Madras.
Michigan State University was eager to get to a joint PhD programme quickly, as soon as later this year. Two others, Purdue University and the University of Maryland, also wanted to move on to deeper relationships culminating in a joint PhD programme.
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