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Symbi spreads its net outside Pune
PUNE: One of the country's premier deemed universities, the Symbiosis International University (SIU) is on course to extending its footprint beyond the city.The SIU's Bangalore campus, a fully residential facility, is to go functional from June, 2008, while two similar campuses are coming up at Hyderabad and Noida from 2009-10.
Next, it is eyeing Gujarat for its fourth campus outside Pune, Symbiosis joint director Vidya Yeravdekar told TOI on Tuesday. "Demand for quality education as well as institutions for foreign students is driving our expansion strategy," she explained.
Since its inception 25 years ago, the Pune-based SIU has grown to having 25,000 students for its various academic programmes at campuses in five locations across the city. The flagship institution is the Symbiosis Institute of Business Management (SIBM), which annually draws nearly 1 lakh MBA aspirants from across the country for admissions.
On April 9, Andhra Pradesh (AP) chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy laid the foundation stone for Symbiosis' proposed campus on 40 acres of land in Hyderabad given by the AP government.
"SIU was among the three premier institutions (Mumbai-based Narsee Monjee Institute of Management and Tata Institute of Social Sciences being the other two) invited by the AP government to set up academic campuses in Hyderabad," said Yeravdekar.
"We have got possession of the land and plan to develop five acres of the same in the first year to start SIBM-Hyderabad," she said. The campus will have an academic building and residential facilities," she said. Symbiosis institutes for law and engineering studies will begin from 2009-10 at Hyderabad.
Next, it is eyeing Gujarat for its fourth campus outside Pune, Symbiosis joint director Vidya Yeravdekar told TOI on Tuesday. "Demand for quality education as well as institutions for foreign students is driving our expansion strategy," she explained.
Since its inception 25 years ago, the Pune-based SIU has grown to having 25,000 students for its various academic programmes at campuses in five locations across the city. The flagship institution is the Symbiosis Institute of Business Management (SIBM), which annually draws nearly 1 lakh MBA aspirants from across the country for admissions.
On April 9, Andhra Pradesh (AP) chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy laid the foundation stone for Symbiosis' proposed campus on 40 acres of land in Hyderabad given by the AP government.
"SIU was among the three premier institutions (Mumbai-based Narsee Monjee Institute of Management and Tata Institute of Social Sciences being the other two) invited by the AP government to set up academic campuses in Hyderabad," said Yeravdekar.
"We have got possession of the land and plan to develop five acres of the same in the first year to start SIBM-Hyderabad," she said. The campus will have an academic building and residential facilities," she said. Symbiosis institutes for law and engineering studies will begin from 2009-10 at Hyderabad.
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