IIT Madras targets to have 100 foreign faculties in three years

One of the major challenge is lack of enough industry-academia partnership, says Pawan Goenka

The Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IITM) is planning to attract more foreign nationals as its faculty, targeting a total of 100 foreign faculty in the institute in three years. The institute, which has received an increased fund of Rs 750 crore in the budget for the year, is also looking at increasing its industry-institute collaboration and more funds from the industry in future, said the senior officials from IITM.

The institutes' board in a meeting has approved a plan to increase its foreign faculty level to 100 in the next three years and to maintain in that level for