The institute has received around 500 applications from across backgrounds, with 40 percent- 50 percent from an engineering background and having work experience. The majority of the applicants are from Ahmedabad followed by Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Delhi, and Chennai.
This comes as part of India’s educational revamp under the National Education Policy 2020 (NEP) which emphasis on reform in higher education with one of the tenants being internationalization of education.
Deakin's Indian campus will be located in Gujarat's GIFT City, the report said, adding that an official announcement is likely to be made on March 8.