First IIT campus outside India will be set up in Tanzania – Times of India

The Ministry of External Affairs on Thursday said the first Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) campus outside India will be set up in Zanzibar, Tanzania. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed by the Government of India, IIT Madras, and Tanzania’s Ministry of Education and Vocational Training (MoEVT), MEA stated.
It added that IIT Madras will handle academic programs, curricula, and student selection aspects. The agreement was signed on Wednesday in the presence of External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Zanzibar’s President Hussein Ali Mwinyi. Jaishankar is on a four-day visit to Tanzania.
“The first IIT campus to be set up outside India will be in Zanzibar. This campus is reflective of the longstanding friendship between India and Tanzania and a reminder of the focus India places on building people-to-people ties across Africa and the Global South,” the MEA said.
It said the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 recommends that “high-performing Indian universities will be encouraged to set up campuses in other countries”.
“Recognising the strategic partnership between Tanzania and India, the relationship of educational partnership has been formalised by signing the document which provides the framework for the parties to detail out the setting up of the proposed campus of IIT Madras in Zanzibar-Tanzania, with plans to launch programmes in October 2023,” the MEA said.