New Delhi: Boston University, one of the outstanding universities in the US, is likely to open a campus in India. Robert A. Brown, President of Boston University, would be visiting New Delhi in January for the purpose. Mr Brown is expected to meet Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal and attend a seminar on January 9, 2010, which is based on de-regulating Indian education.
As per sources, the development took place after Sibal toured the university in October, and had a discussion with Brown about an Indian campus of Boston University. India is in talks with several world-class universities and has invited them to open campuses here. Sibal had already discussed the issue with several top administrators of Harvard, Yale and Duke Universities. The country is also set to table a bill in the Parliament to allow foreign universities to set up campuses here.
