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No of Annual Average aid
faculty tuition fees award

210 $28,000 $8,000-14,000
256 $39,000 $26,000
216 $29,562 $20,594

103 $47,160 $35,146
NA $24,000 $15,600

NA $30,126 $23,662
180 $27,642 $20,526
NA $49,529 $24,000
129 $50,070 $29,727
NA $35,086 $23,413
157 $42,402 $22,437
328 $39,000 $17,821-25,000
100 $52,530 $37,879 Alma College students: warm welcome assurance
93 $30,512 $24,560
dustrial heartland of America, they of- will get fiercer than before. It is in this
fer excellent internships and postgrad global backdrop that the American trio
class X or class XI by investing merely placements, especially for STEM stu- riot — employers’ demand for 2.5 mil-
four-five hours per week. They will be dents; excellent infrastructure includ- lion STEM jobs to fill the shortage by
taught virtually by MCA faculty who ing state-of-the-art labs, libraries and 2030, declining youth population and
also mentor them. Completing the sports facilities for which America’s the compelling need to grow and re-
AccessMCA program enables direct universities have won global renown. vitalise domestic capacity in strategic
admission into any of the alliance’s Moreover as indicated by the enthu- industries — forces the US to get its act
14 colleges, will earn them valuable siastic welcome they accorded to EW together to reverse its declining share
credits and save a year of college. CEO Bhavin Shah, all of them want to of access to the world’s top students.
We will be piloting the AccessMCA welcome school-leavers and initiate Needless to mention growing geopo-
programme starting this July in our faculty and student exchanges, twin- litical tensions with China may be a
school,” says Dr. Gupta, an economics ning programmes with schools and speed-breaker to the Chinese student
alumna of Delhi and Meerut universi- higher education institutions in India, mobility to the US,” wrote Vaidyasub-
ties, former principal of DPS Sushant initiatives encouraged by the National ramaniam in the New Sunday Express
Lok, Gurgaon and Delhi Public School, Education Policy (NEP) 2020. (May 21).
Ghaziabad. “AccessMCA Associate Be that as it may with annual gov-
Schools also opens up opportunities CCORDING TO DR. S. ernment (Centre plus states) outlay
for us to collaborate with MCA colleg- A VAIDYASUBRAMANIAM, for public education in India mired in
es on student and teacher exchanges, the erudite (Asian In- the 3-4 percent of GDP rut and little
summer programmes and profession- stitute of Management prospect of genuine higher education
al development/mentoring opportuni- and Harvard Business School) Vice reform in the near future, ambitious
ties for our teachers,” she adds. Chancellor of the EW Top 10 ranked school-leavers and doting parents
MCA member colleges have nu- Shanmugam Arts, Science, Technol- would do well to carefully examine
merous commonalities. They are all ogy & Research Academy (SASTRA) the virtues of member universities of
vintage institutions with long and suc- Deemed (private) University, Thanja- the Michigan Colleges Alliance — the
cessful experience of undergraduate vur, 9 million students worldwide will AccessMCA proposition, low faculty-
teaching-learning; they are boutique leave home by 2030 to pursue higher student ratios, willingness to award
tertiary education institutions with education abroad with the number of scholarships, internships and place-
low faculty-student ratios; they offer a students leaving from India doubling ments, and safe and secure values-
wide range of traditional art, science, to 400,000 annually. added higher education in scenic
commerce and in most cases engi- “With such a high global market campuses with excellent 21st century
neering and professional education, for international education the com- infrastructure. It seems like a package
and by virtue of being sited in the in- petition among the top host nations too good to refuse.

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