University of London Campus in Hyd, Northeastern University’s Offshore Campus at Future City,

Hyderabad: Northeastern University (Boston) and the University of London, a federation of 17 independent schools in England, will be setting up their first offshore campus in Hyderabad, the first in India. London School of Economics (LSE) and School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), agreed to send teams to explore setting up offshore schools, supporting industry interaction, improving pedagogical methods, classroom interaction models, and bringing their faculty to be stationed here.

Harvard University has expressed intent to start their short-term executive education programmes for senior government and corporate officials at Dr MCR HRD Institute in Hyderabad.

These developments follow the visit of the state government delegation led by Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy, along with IT minister D. Sridhar Babu, and comprising officials Santha Kumari, vice-chairperson of Dr MCR HRD Institute; CM’s adviser K Ramakrishna Rao and N. Sridhar, principal secretary, CMO, during their visit to the United Kingdom, and the subsequent tour of officials to the United States from August 19 to 29.

The Telangana delegation had fruitful discussions with representatives, top leadership, senior faculty members and administrators from Oxford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, London Business School, Cambridge University and Imperial College London.

Chief Minister held a meeting with officials on Monday at MCRHRDI to review the trip and the progress made, and gave directions on the way forward. He asked officials to lead, manage and oversee the realisation of the vision to create the global knowledge hub and to bring the world's best academic institutions – universities, colleges and schools – to Hyderabad through collaborations or offshore campuses so they may offer their certification programmes and courses here with utmost focus and dedication.

"Telangana… has received a big boost with the successful conclusion of agreements, memorandums of agreement and letters of intent with some of the best institutions of the world,” Revanth Reddy said. “We will bring the best educational offerings to the youth and children of not only Telangana but all of India."

Officials who went to the USA and met teams from Northeastern University, Virginia Tech University and concluded agreements briefed the Chief Minister about the details of the discussions and explained that more agreements would follow.

Santhi Kumari said, "We will begin classes, especially short-term classes and executive programmes at MCRHRDI campus. Classrooms are being redeveloped and redesigned for the purpose of world class education dissemination. People of Hyderabad and India, be it government officers and PSU employees and private employees, can participate in educational programmes from these great institutions from Hyderabad soon."

Speaking about the programmes, Ramakrishna Rao said, “We will develop the global knowledge hub in Hyderabad, with different facilities coming up at the MCR-HRD campus, and in the future, at the Bharat Future City."

Chief Minister Revanth Reddy also instructed officials to ensure that the Invest Telangana Global Summit on December 7, 8 and 9, also had a separate track on global educational institutions and sports facilities and their impact on the state.