(Info) List of Foreign Based Academic Institutions

100% Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) through automatic route is permitted in the Education Sector since 11th February 2000, without the authority to confer foreign degrees. At present, only the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has framed regulations, for entry and operation of foreign universities/institutions, imparting technical education in India and seven institutions have been registered by AICTE for providing technical education in India in collaboration with the foreign universities/institutions.

These are :

1. IHM, Aurangabad, Maharashtra in collaboration with University of Huddersfield, UK,
2. APIIT, Panipat, Haryana in collaboration with Staffordshire University, U.K.,
3. Sreenidhi Institute of Science & Technology, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh in collaboration with Vaughan College of Aeronautics & Technology, USA,
4. IIMT, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh in collaboration with TAFE, Australia,
5. Maharaja Institute of Technology, Rohini in collaboration with Auburn Unviersity, Albama, USA,
6. Delhi College Business School, Indore, MP in collaboration with Demonford University, Leicester, U.K. and
7. Bharatiya Vidhya Bhawan’s S.P. Jain Institute of Management, Mumbai in collaboration with Schulich School of Business, York University, Canada.

This information was given by the Minister of State in the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Smt. D.Purandeswari in written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha today.

Courtesy: Press Information Bureau