Johns Hopkins in talks for Indian campus | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: In what could be a new milestone for the internationalization of education in India, Union Minister of Education Dharmendra Pradhan on Sunday held talks with officials of Johns Hopkins University (JHU), Maryland, US, about setting up its campus in India. The meeting also explored academic and research collaboration with the university.
According to a senior official from the Ministry of Education, “Given the keen interest shown by the high-level delegation during the meeting, the government is hopeful of a positive outcome very soon.”
The official said discussions also took place in the areas of dual and joint training, two-way mobility of students and teachers, and research partnerships in emerging areas such as data science, artificial intelligence and futuristic technologies. The 12-member delegation, the largest ever from one of the top global institutions from the US, to visit India is led by Ronald J Daniels, President of JHU. It also involved officials from the Gupta Klinsky India Institute (GKII), an internal unit of JHU with a mandate to bring together the JHU community with Indian partners through research, education, policy and practice.
During the meeting, Pradhan underlined the transformative possibilities enabled by National Education Policy 2020 (NE).