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After the Harvard Business School, its the University of Chicago which will open an academic centre in Delhi.
The university will open the centre next year to support and expand opportunities for collaboration among scholars and students from India and Chicago, across academic disciplines.
In a press statement issued today, the university said that the Delhi centre will be home for research and education for University of Chicago faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates working in India and throughout South Asia, as well as Indian researchers and students representing a wide array of institutions, and scholars from around the world.
“The centre will support the work of our faculty, provide a platform for collaboration and opportunities for Indian scholars, prepare our students with a much greater understanding of India, South Asia, and global issues, and contribute to intellectual discourse in and with India,” said President Robert J. Zimmer.
“Our goal is to create an intellectual destination in Delhi, where scholars and students from the United States, India, and around the world can benefit from the free exchange of ideas,” Zimmer added.
The centre will promote scholarship and teaching under three broad umbrellas: business, economics,law and policy; science, energy, medicine and public health and culture society, religion, and the arts.
The centre will provide space for seminars and conferences, as well as faculty offices and study areas. It will host Indian and South Asian students and scholars, serve as a base for UChicago students and faculty working at other institutions in India and throughout the region, and engage alumni and parents in India and South Asia.
Delhi joins the University’s centre in Beijing, opened in 2010, and the centre in Paris, opened in 2004.
The university said work is also underway on a centre in Hong Kong that will house a University of Chicago Booth School of Business Executive MBA program as well as other University programs.
Harvard Business School had set up its India Research centre in Mumbai in 2006.
