University of Southampton

Current Context : Central government granted permission to the UK-based University of Southampton to establish a campus in Gurugram, Delhi-NCR.

• University of Southampton will become the first international university to set up a campus in India under the UGC (Setting up and Operation of Campuses of Foreign Higher Educational Institutions in India) Regulations, 2023.
• The University of Southampton is among the top 100 universities in the QS World University Rankings (a portfolio of college and university rankings).
• The first academic session is likely to begin in July 2025, and the campus will hire faculty from both India and abroad.
• The regulations, which allow top 500 foreign universities to set up campuses in India, were prepared in line with the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, which envisioned that “top universities in the world will be facilitated to operate in India”.