IIT Madras to Launch First Global Campus in Zanzibar from October with Woman Director - News18
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Applications for the 2023 batch are currently open with 50 seats for the BS course and 20 seats for the M Tech course. (File photo/Twitter) The first offshore campus of the Indian Institute of Technology has also become the first-ever IIT to have a woman director, Prof Preeti Aghalayam Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras is going to launch India’s first global campus in Zanzibar-Tanzania, East Africa, on October 25, which will become the first IIT ever to be headed by a woman director. To start with, the campus will offer a BS degree in data science and AI and an M Tech degree in the same discipline. The new international campus will be headed by Prof Preeti Aghalayam, dean of the School of Science and Engineering at IIT Madras , who will now take charge of the Zanzibar campus as its director, the institute announced on Monday. The governments of India and Tanzania had last week signed an MoU to this effect. Applications for the 2023 batch are currently open with 50