‘We might set-up a campus in India’: VC of Newcastle University (UK)

Q. Four UK universities are opening their campuses successful India, and a fewer overseas institutes person collaborated with Indian varsities. Should we expect immoderate large announcements from Newcastle University?

Chris Day: We are successful the precise aboriginal stages of exploring caller acquisition partnerships successful India. This mightiness see associated grade programs, survey overseas opportunities for Newcastle students, and, potentially, an Indian field established with a section partner.

Q. The UK has been the apical prime for Indian students aiming for higher education. So, wherefore are UK varsities opening campuses successful India?

Day: Education transcends borders and, by moving unneurotic with agleam students from astir the world, we go amended astatine tackling the large planetary issues. At Newcastle University, expanding our transnational acquisition is cardinal to our acquisition and planetary strategies, supporting our committedness to collaborate crossed and for the world, moving successful section and planetary partnerships to execute much collectively than we tin alone.

Q. How galore Indian students are studying astatine Newcastle University and what subjects bash they prefer? Please stock the data.

Day: In 2024, Newcastle University saw Indian students enrolling successful implicit 110 antithetic courses. For the September 2024 entry, our astir fashionable programs for Indian students astatine the postgraduate level were successful business, finance, and information subject subjects.

Q. While STEM rules planetary students’ choice, what are the future/ emerging courses?

Day: We are seeing accrued involvement crossed the UK for wide arts, fintech, biology science, cleanable energy, and science to sanction a few.

Q. Office for Students (OfS) caller investigation shows a 20.4 per cent driblet successful Indian pupil numbers – down from 1,39,914 to 1,11,329. Do you deliberation the stricter visa norms/ policies for planetary students volition impact the choices of Indians?

Day: The UK has agelong been a preferred destination for Indian students owed to its world-class acquisition system, beardown vocation prospects, and welcoming world environment. We are profoundly committed to fostering a divers and inclusive planetary pupil community, and we highly worth the contributions of Indian students to our world and taste environment. Students from India, and astir the world, are an indispensable portion of beingness successful Newcastle – each year, the metropolis welcomes thousands of students from crossed the satellite to survey here. They enrich the portion successful galore ways and assistance america present planetary probe impact.

At Newcastle University, we are actively moving to enactment our Indian students by ensuring they person wide guidance connected visa processes and vocation opportunities. We connection a scope of scholarships to enactment the brightest and champion students to travel and survey with us.

Students who person been offered a spot to survey connected an eligible undergraduate grade people astatine the University’s Newcastle metropolis centre field for the 2025/26 world twelvemonth are eligible for the VC Excellence Scholarships and the Vice-Chancellor’s International Scholarships.

We precocious launched the Newcastle-India Leadership and Innovation Scholarship for 2025 entry. Covering afloat tuition fees, the 10 assistance awards are for applicants from India who use to commence full-time, one-year Master’s studies connected an eligible program.

Q. What are the mean tuition fees of planetary students? How does the varsity supply placement to Indian students?

Day: Newcastle is 1 of the astir affordable cities successful the UK and has been rated arsenic the 3rd champion pupil metropolis successful England (QS Ranking 2025). The mean surviving costs for a pupil successful the UK is £1,112.50 per month. Newcastle’s lowest-priced accommodation is astir £500, for metropolis centre accommodation with bills included, which offers large worth for money.

The fees for planetary students alteration by antithetic grade programs and the twelvemonth for which the pupil is applying. For planetary students, the mean tuition fees scope from £25,000-30,000 approximately. These fees are reduced erstwhile scholarships are applied.

As a research-intensive University, the connections betwixt our acquisition and probe person ever been astatine the halfway of our provision. This means that encounters with our world-leading probe and the starring borderline of manufacture and signifier are astatine the bosom of our program and learning experiences. Our graduates permission america with the skills, knowledge, and experiences that guarantee they are acceptable for their aboriginal and the satellite successful which they volition unrecorded and work.

The Careers Service organises and facilitates graduate-level enactment acquisition for existent students with a section concern oregon University section done the NCL Internship scheme, portion Jobs On Campus (JobsOC) offers students the accidental to enactment connected field successful a assortment of antithetic impermanent roles.

Our International Student Pathway tin assistance planetary students find retired wherever to summation experience, larn however to marque their CV basal out, and research their vocation options wrong oregon extracurricular the UK aft they graduate.

START UP is Newcastle University’s enactment for students and caller graduates looking to go self-employed and commencement caller businesses. Through START UP, students and graduates payment from proposal and enactment including confidential one-to-one coaching and tailored concern guidance, skills development, equity-free assistance funding, co-working abstraction and different opportunities. This enactment is reflected successful the latest Higher Education Business and Community Interaction Survey (HEBCIS), and I’m delighted that we were placed 4th successful the UK based connected turnover and ninth successful the UK based connected postgraduate investment.

Newcastle University Students’ Union besides has a large portion to play successful encouraging students to foster their concern acuity, entrepreneurship oregon creativity with opportunities to articulation implicit 100 antithetic clubs and societies: from economics to moving the pupil vigor station.

Q. A fewer 1000 students from India registry to survey medicine overseas each twelvemonth – Russia and China are among the fashionable nations. However, less spell to the UK due to the fact that of its precocious fees. Do you deliberation UK varsities should easiness the process and fees for Indians?

Day: We stay committed to supporting planetary endowment and we invited students from India and beyond who survey medicine successful the UK. Medical and dental schoolhouse admissions successful the UK are regulated done intake targets acceptable by the UK Government, which spot limits connected the fig of some home and planetary students that each assemblage tin enrol annually.

Q. How would you measure Indian students implicit the decades – starting from your graduation clip to present arsenic a vice-chancellor? What are their strengths and weaknesses?

Day: We are privileged to proceed welcoming the brightest and champion students from India. Students from India are talented, dedicated, and hard-working. They are recognised for their world excellence and spell connected to large careers and idiosyncratic achievements. We person implicit 3,500 Indian alumni making their people successful the world. Students person gone connected to vocation occurrence with employers specified arsenic Siemens, Dyson, IBM, PwC, Deloitte, EY and Accenture.

Our graduates see Rakshit Jagdale (MBA 2002), MD astatine Amrut Distilleries, and Pranav Anam (Genetics, BSc 2005), Founder of The Gene Box. Our alumna, Professor Beena Koshy, has been named arsenic 1 of the 75 young Indian achievers by NISAU UK and the British Council successful 2022-23.