News Excerpt:
IIT Madras has opened its campus in Zanzibar and became the first campus of IIT to be opened abroad.
- The pioneering venture is part of the central government’s initiative to project India’s education system onto the global stage.
Key Highlights:
- It will offer programs in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence at the Bachelor’s and Master’s levels.
- The inaugural batch comprises students from Zanzibar, mainland Tanzania, Nepal, and India.
- Of the students in the first batch, 40 percent are women.
- This campus will benefit from an array of academic collaborations, including study abroad programs, internships with companies, and opportunities at the IIT-Madras campus in Chennai.
- It is open to students of all nationalities.
- The selection process includes a screening test and interview.
About Zanzibar:
- Zanzibar is an archipelago in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Tanzania and is a semi-autonomous province of Tanzania.
- Unguja and Pemba are the two main islands of the archipelago.
- Zanzibar became a protectorate (not a colony) of Britain in 1890.
- They speak ‘Swahili’ language.
