Schulich builds first campus in India

Under the current agreement, Schulich will develop the learning environment and academic infrastructure while the GMR Group will provide the land and the physical campus. The Hyderabad campus will be the first fully-fledged campus of a major international business school in India.

Operated as a seamless extension of their Canadian campus the school wants to offer the same high educational standards on the new site in India : “The GMR Campus of the Schulich School of Business will be a mirror image of our Toronto campus, with first-rate facilities, international faculty, and an internationally-focused curriculum,” said Schulich Dean Dr. Dezsö J. Horváth. “We will attract the best and the brightest students from India and abroad and prepare them for global careers in India and elsewhere in the world.”

The business school is planning to initially offer its two-year MBA program to 120 students at the Hyderabad campus, along with Executive Education programs. Future students could benefit from a significant reduction in cost for their international education due to the lower cost of living in India.

Subject to approval under the Foreign Educational Institutions Bill currently before the Indian Parliament and final approvals by the Boards of York University and the GMR Group, admissions would commence no later than 2013.

In January Schulich was already the first international business school from outside the country to launch an MBA program in India. The school has built strong ties to the region over the past years developing exchange partner agreements with a number of India’s leading management schools and an international satellite centre in Mumbai that operates as a recruitment and placement hub for students.

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