First Indian university to open doors next month
The Peninsula
The first Indian university in Qatar, a campus of Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU) with a capacity of 660 students, is all set to start classes on September 5 this year.
The university, ‘Milestone International Education - Savitribai Phule Pune University (MIE-SPPU) Institute of Higher Education’, will have 11 classrooms with 60 students per classroom and a campus covering 6,300 square metres. “So far, over 50 students have been enrolled, one third of them are female students. We are expecting in the first year about 200 students,” said MIE-SPPU President Hassan Chougule in an exclusive interview with The Peninsula. The MIE-SPPU Institute of Higher Education’s facilities such as laboratories, auditorium, indoor recreation area, cafeteria, library, book store and two shops for stationery items, computer and mobile accessories are all ready to serve, Chougule added.More Related News