http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/education/100830/india-higher-foreign-universitiesHow many American institutions actually want to enter India is open to debate. Many college delegations have traveled to India but few have followed up with concrete action.
"There are not a large number of universities that will set up campuses," said Edward Guiliano, president of the New York Institute of Technology, which has been interested in working in India. "I think universities will do joint ventures with Indian universities in the beginning."
India’s higher-education system needs help. That much almost all agree on. No more than 10 percent of India's 90 million college-age citizens go to college. While the most underprivileged members of that age group don't even make it through high school, many students in the country's rising middle class, too, are unable to find places in public higher education institutions because the system is so small. India has very few good government-approved institutions.
Pratap Bhanu Mehta, president of the Centre for Policy Research, a New Delhi-based think tank, says India must not look at foreign universities as separate and apart from domestic university reform. "The ideal situation is one in which there is comprehensive regulatory reform of which foreign universities are one aspect," said Mehta.
India needs foreign universities to meet student demand, he says, and to ensure that the country can recapture some of the $4 billion that the 200,000 or so Indian students studying abroad spend each year.
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