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Paneer paratha, sparse classrooms, meditation room: A university in India, but with ‘a very Australian flavour’

The Indian Express·Ritu Sharma·23 days ago
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Jayam Patel, 23, had completed a one-year postgraduate diploma in computer studies and was aiming for a “foreign education experience” in the United States after earning a master’s degree from Gujarat University last year, until he read about the “volatile employment situation” there. His parents, too, considered it risky for him to go abroad. For them, Deakin University came as a timely answer. Barely 30 kms away from where he lives in Ahmedabad , the institute offers the cybersecurity course, which Jayram had been wanting to pursue with a foreign university to enrich his resume, he tells The Indian Express. The grey box-like building opens into the first offshore teaching campus of an international university in India. Launched in 2024 with 42 students, who graduated in March, the campus is located in Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT City) in a special economic zone (SEZ).…

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