For doctoral programmes, Rice University located successful Texas continues its contented of afloat backing PhD candidates. (Photo: X/@RiceUniversity)
US-based Rice University connected Monday announced its enlargement plans into India with the motorboat of Rice Global India successful Bengaluru. The inaugural is aimed astatine fostering planetary collaboration and advancing the university’s publication to India’s increasing acquisition and exertion sectors.
The planetary centre astatine the IT superior of India volition illustration retired strategies to initiate ceremonial operations successful the portion and fortify collaborations with top-tier probe and world institutions successful India.
Rice University president Reginald DesRoches besides unveiled a assistance programme, offering up to $2 cardinal annually to enactment students arsenic portion of speech programmes, pursuing nonrecreational master’s degrees. The inaugural aims to pull planetary endowment and grow the university’s planetary outreach.
DesRoches highlighted that the scholarships are portion of a broader committedness to subsidize resources for master’s students. “To statesman with, we are allocating astir $2 cardinal per twelvemonth for scholarships to enactment incoming students. This volition assistance america gauge the request and find aboriginal expansion,” helium said.
For doctoral programmes, Rice University located successful Texas continues its contented of afloat backing PhD candidates. Students enrolled successful these programmes volition person a broad package, including tuition sum and a stipend exceeding $35,000 annually. The assemblage anticipates important involvement successful its PhD programmes, with backing determined based connected the fig of students admitted.
Under the pupil speech programme astatine undergraduate level, students from spouse institutions successful India volition person their expenses wholly covered, fostering world and taste speech connected some ends.
As portion of the expansion, Rice University is besides deepening its collaborations with prestigious institutions specified arsenic the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bengaluru. These partnerships volition foster precocious probe initiatives, collaborations successful cardinal areas of communal involvement specified arsenic artificial intelligence, biotechnology, healthcare and sustainable energy, assemblage leaders said.
Rice University authorities besides met with Karnataka IT Minister Priyank Kharge and discussed concern opportunities for promoting Global Capability Centers (GCC), an concern inaugural to behaviour associated probe projects betwixt academia and GCCs.