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The University Grants Commission (UGC) as directed Universities and Colleges to create supernumerary seats for international students in Undergraduate (UG) and Postgraduate (PG) programmes in higher educational institutions (HEIs).
In its latest notice, the UGC has highlighted that Internationalization of higher education is one of the essential aspects of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020. It makes higher education relevant internationally with the process of integrating an international and intercultural dimension in higher education.
In order to facilitate the internationalization of Indian HEls, the University Grants Commission has framed the guidelines for admission and creation of supernumerary seats for international student in Undergraduate and Postgraduate Programmes in HEls in India.
Objectives
To facilitate a smooth and simple admission of international students in higher educational institutions of lndia.
To create a favourable environment for attracting international students to Indian highereducation system.
To make India a preferred destination for international students.
Guidelines
Indian HEls may admit international students based on the equivalence of entry qualification held by them. The equivalence is to be determined by the University Grants Commission ( UGC) or any other body recognised by UGC for such purpose or the concerned regulatory bodies of the country. HEIs may adopt a transparent admission process for admitting the international students.
HEls may create up to 25% supernumerary seats for international students, over and above of their total sanctioned enrolment for Undergraduate and Postgraduate programmes.
The decision regarding 25% supernumerary eats has 10 be carried out by the concerned higher educational institutions as per specific guidelines/regulations issued by the regulatory bodies considering the infrastructure, faculty and other requirements.
The 25% of the supernumerary seats for international students will not include the international students under exchange programmes or/and through Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between institutions or between Government of India and other countries.
Depending on the availability of infrastructure and qualified faculty, efforts should he made to distribute these 25% seats among all departments, schools, centres or any other academic unit of the higher educational institutions, wherever possible.
