Queen’s University, Belfast set to open first offshore campus in Gujarat’s GIFT city

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Queen's university As 1 of the oldest Universities successful the UK, Queen’s University volition unfastened with 500 seats crossed 7 Master's programmes and already has plans for further enlargement for PhD probe and establishing itself successful entrepreneurial and start-up sectors. (Image: qub.ac.uk)

For the archetypal time, a assemblage from the United Kingdom is acceptable to unfastened an offshore field successful India successful the Gujarat International Finance-Tec (GIFT) City, aft 2 universities from Australia — Deakin and the University of Wollongong — began operations determination successful the past world year.

The 1845-founded Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) successful Northern Ireland, UK, volition acceptable up its archetypal planetary subdivision field successful GIFT City, which volition beryllium the largest successful the astute city, dispersed implicit 145,000 quadrate feet with a ten-floor building.

Another assemblage from the UK, Coventry University, is besides keen to unfastened its planetary subdivision field successful GIFT City. It is awaiting in-principle support from the International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA), assemblage officials told The Indian Express.

As 1 of the oldest Universities successful the UK, Queen’s University volition unfastened with 500 seats crossed 7 Master’s programmes and already has plans for further enlargement for PhD probe and establishing itself successful entrepreneurial and start-up sectors.

The world league is to commence successful January 2026. The assemblage opened up for online applications past week connected January 30.

“Initially, determination volition beryllium 5 Master’s level programmes — Construction and Project Management, Business Analytics, Financial Analytics, Finance and Leadership for Sustainable Development. Two further programmes successful September 2026 — MSc successful Artificial Intelligence and MSc successful Artificial Intelligence for Business — volition beryllium introduced,” Professor Margaret Topping, who is Pro Vice Chancellor for Global Engagement, told The Indian Express.

After respective visits to GIFT City, Professor Topping, who is the pb world for the project, attended a virtual roundtable with manufacture leaders astatine GIFT City connected Tuesday.

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With a interest operation of 15,000 pounds for a twelvemonth (full programme), the University volition beryllium offering a wide scope of scholarships on with “value-added options”.

“The module volition beryllium a blend of some the UK and India, and that volition alteration a small spot depending connected the programme. We volition usage immoderate flying module initially, but we volition besides precise soon beryllium going retired to enlistee the champion endowment from India and so from anyplace other successful the world. We volition beryllium launching a module recruitment run precise soon and with a precise effectual bundle truthful that we tin guarantee the champion imaginable talent-delivering programme connected our field successful India. Also, the Dean of the field volition soon beryllium appointed,” Prof Topping told this newspaper.

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