Ministry: Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) and Ministry of External Affairs
Aims at boosting country’s share of international students and subsequently, improve global reputation and rankings of Indian educational institutions.
Program:
- The programme will provide meritorious foreign students fee waiver and scholarship.
- It will target students from 30 countries, primarily in Asia and Africa, including Nepal, Vietnam, Saudi Arabia, Kazakhstan, Nigeria, Malaysia, Thailand, Egypt, Iran, Kuwait, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Rwanda, among others.
- Government will offer complete fee waiver to top 25% meritorious applicants, 50% fee waiver to the next 25% applicants and 25% waiver to the next 25% foreign students.
- The proposed fee waiver and scholarship will be decided by institute concerned based on predefined structure.
- The institutes concerned will bear expenditure on fee waiver based on cross-subsidisation or through its existing funding.
- The seats for foreign students will not affect number of seats which are meant for Indian students in any educational institute.
Objectives
- Encourage more foreign students to choose India as destination for higher education.
- Double India’s market share of global education exports from less than 1% to 2%.
- Improve global ranking of Indian educational institutes.